ietf-nntp Backfill: not again.

Alan Barrett apb at iafrica.com
Mon Jan 13 10:05:40 PST 1997


> We seem to have a good consensus about backfill (ie, its
> not permitted)

Yes, since I found a method of implementing master/slave servers that use
parallelism without a risk of backfill, I have joined the "backfill should
be prohibited" consensus. 

> If there's sufficient interest, I'll quite happily set up a mailing
> list here for more in-depth discussion on master/slave replication,
> thrashing out the issues associated with not only the replication
> part, but also keeping the replicated servers compliant with RFC977bis
> (no-backfill et al.)

I think that would be a good idea.

--apb (Alan Barrett)




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