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From: hah@mipon3.intel.com (Hans Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amigas as net sites (Was: Fish Disk benchmark result)
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Date: Sun, 26-Jul-87 16:08:41 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 26 16:08:41 1987
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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