Aduke.819 net.news,NET.news utzoo!duke!swd Wed Jun 3 09:08:41 1981 saving transmissions I think that harpo!jerry's proposal is about as simple a system as will work. Two comments: 1) The third field in the .sys file is presently not in use, and could be used to flag which systems use this fancy request protocol. 2) The systems for which it is most necessary are those which call long distance. They tend to not talk all that often, so this scheme will slow down transmission (possibly by days) on those links which are already slowest. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.