Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Report Card on the success of the group creation guidelines Message-ID: <6270@ficc.uu.net> Date: 24 Sep 89 16:49:53 GMT References: <17735@looking.on.ca> <1989Sep20.060201.4473@rpi.edu> <45814@bbn.COM> <155@ora.ora.com> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14 In article <155@ora.ora.com>, ambar@ora.ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz) writes: > What I'm arguing is that, in any news system that has more than one machine > NNTP will probably be in use. Hmmm... interesting. Why aren't there more people using remote file systems of one sort or another? We have some 30 machines here with a very stateful remote file system called OpenNET. Almost full UNIX semantics on the remote machine. We just run vnews with the paths to the sys and spool directories pointing to the machine with the news on it. -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "That is not the Usenet tradition, but it's a solidly-entrenched U delusion now." -- brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)