Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mcnc!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-pcd!uoregon!omepd!hah From: hah@mipon3.intel.com (Hans Hansen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amigas as net sites (Was: Fish Disk benchmark result) Message-ID: <908@omepd> Date: Sun, 26-Jul-87 16:08:41 EDT Article-I.D.: omepd.908 Posted: Sun Jul 26 16:08:41 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 29-Jul-87 06:57:24 EDT References: <1424@crash.CTS.COM> <2151@cbmvax.UUCP> Sender: news@omepd Reply-To: hah@mipon3.UUCP (Hans Hansen) Distribution: world Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro Lines: 21 In article <2151@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes: >in article <1424@crash.CTS.COM>, doc@crash.CTS.COM (Mitch Evans) says: >> >> I am interested in finding out if the Amiga series is capable of becoming a >> Net (UUCP, ARPA, or otherwise) site. Is there any hardware needed? If there >> a package out there somewhere? What else should I know about it? > <----> >Next, you need to get a Usenet feed, >and probably enough hard disk space to cover this. You may have some >trouble getting a feed; imagine if a few hundred or even thousand Amiga >owners in a given area all wanted to be Usenet nodes; the few hosts >likely to be in that area now would be swamped, not to mention all the >daily phone calls that they'd be involved with. <----> >-- >Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga Usenet: {ihnp4|caip|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh Sounds like a job for each USER GROUP's BBS. Whatcha say all ya SYS-OPS?? Hans