Re: Why is propagation from Zippo to altnet so bad?

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From: Chris Caputo
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 00:00

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We do not know what has happened, but both Zippo and us have made
adjustments to our feeds to each other in hopes of improving this. 

Chris Caputo
President, Altopia Corporation

tall@alias.cyberpass.net (Heironymous Bach) writes:
>I have noticed that propagation from SZ is very bad. One example :
>recent  postings of Quark in alt.binaries.mac.applications have only
>propogated a tiny fraction of all the parts in two and a half days,
>which I note is longer than the expiration in that group. Basically at
>this point  altnet is unusable for getting multipart postings
>originating on zippo.

>A related point: the volume seen on altnet in a.b.m.a is tiny
>recently. Much less than SZ. 

>It used to be better. What has happened?

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From: ccaputo@alt.net (Chris Caputo)
Subject: Re: Why is propagation from Zippo to altnet so bad?
Date: 1997/11/25
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