Minutes ... (nntpxmit)

[Brain in Neutral]

>From article <1884 at papaya.bbn.com>, by rsalz at bbn.com (Rich Salz):
> The next topic was running NNTPXMIT.  Most people run it every 30 to 60
> minutes, a few run it every one to 10 minutes, and Scott Bradner at
> Harvard runs it continuously.  **Care to post your script that does this,
> Scott?**  After pleading from Erik Fair, most people agreed to run it more
> often.  **Please run NNTPXMIT at least every 10 minutes.**

What is the reason for this?  To reduce average propagation time?  To
increase size of already-large log files?

Paul DuBois
dubois at primate.wisc.edu