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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
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Posted: Wed Dec  5 18:56:58 1984
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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.