Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 Apollo 10/31/84; site apollo.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!wivax!apollo!rees From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees) Newsgroups: net.news,net.followup Subject: Re: distributed news systems Message-ID: <2361792f.1de6@apollo.uucp> Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 18:56:58 EST Article-I.D.: apollo.2361792f.1de6 Posted: Wed Dec 5 18:56:58 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 06:03:46 EST References: <1914@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass. Lines: 11 Xref: watmath net.news:2739 net.followup:4174 I had no problem getting our news system to work over our local net. The Apollo file system is already distributed, so no matter where I put the new spool directory, everyone can get at it. We currently have 600 machines with about 1200 users all using the same news spool directory. I didn't have to make any changes to the news software to get this to work. Although not necessary, I did change the message-ID to indicate which machine the article originated on. The second hex number in the message-ID is the node ID (serial number) of the originating machine.