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Aucbvax.5766 fa.digest-p utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!digest-people Wed Jan 13 18:33:22 1982 resources chewed up to broadcast digests >From cbosgd!mark@Berkeley Wed Jan 13 18:22:06 1982 Note that one of the big points of USENET is that only one copy of each digest or article is sent to each site, and usually only one copy is sent over each link (thus, if A has a link to B and B has a link to C, then A sends to B which keeps a copy and forwards on to C). This becomes more and more important as the size of mailing lists grows.

USENET (a.k.a. "the network news") currently runs only on UNIX systems but a C compiler for TOPS 20 will soon make it possible to have those sites (and probably TENEX with little work or ITS with a lot of work) join the net. The software will be released at the end of the month and at that time anyone and everyone will be invited to join.

Mark Horton mark@Berkeley

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