10 Jun
1997
10 Jun
'97
11:28 a.m.
At 11:21 PM 6/9/97 -0400, Sean M. Doran wrote: [snip]
Will IP multicast help with the usenet stuff?
Tangental question.
Kurt Lidl and company's excellent MUSE paper, presented at USENIX in Winter 1994 details early attempts to distribute news via the MBONE.
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On the final hand, NNTP distribution is much less broken than Web distribution, and the latter distribution problem probably deserves to be attacked first.
Just released yesterday: A Protocol for the Transmission of Net News Articles over IP multicast. ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-rfced-exp-rupp-01.txt Eric