Subj : 2:280/1141
To   : Lesley-Dee Dylan
From : Ross Cassell
Date : Sun Jun 10 2001 02:13 am

Hello Lesley-Dee!

09 Jun 01 23:17, you wrote to me:

 RC>> the Nodediff had been common knowledge for sometime
 RC>> now, but it appears that he must have thought a
 RC>> mysterious angel was doing the chore back when we didnt
 RC>> even have a IC.

 LD> Back in the days when we didn't have an IC, we went for months at a
 LD> time with no update in the zone 2 segment of the nodelist, and even
 LD> longer for the other zones.  It was NOT a good system.

 LD> When we had a zone 1 resident as IC, we had him processing all the
 LD> segments together.  Things worked again.  Just because we no longer
 LD> have a zone 1 resident as IC is no reason to go back to the old way
 LD> and say "that's the way it always was."  That way was flawed and
 LD> caused many problems.

When we had a Zone 1 resident as IC on the outset he was the ZC as well, when 
he stepped down as ZC and kept the IC hat, he no longer did nodelist 
processing, Moufarrege did and the other ZC's did theirs exactly as you seen it 
described.

In the earlier days the processing was done as described in policy, it has 
since changed and still in use.

We now have a IC who as an executive/head of a Belgian firm is on a extended 
business trip, if his system locks up, do you want to go for weeks without any 
updates?

Sorry the current practice does make more sense as it adds 5 layers of 
redundancy as opposed to one individual doing it.

==
Ross
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