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From: pleasant@porthos.rutgers.edu (Mel Pleasant)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Distributed Filesystems vs. NNTP at large sites.
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Date: 25 Sep 89 19:42:20 GMT
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In article  wesommer@athena.mit.edu (William Sommerfeld) writes:

> Why aren't more people using remote file systems of one sort or another?    

This question really surprises me.  B news has had the code in it
since patch 14 to provide this sort of configuration.  Note that the
code has only been tested with nntp and NFS - but it is known to work.
Client systems read the news directly through remote file access
(NFS).  Posting is done through nntpxmit.  The client never writes
into either /usr/spool/news nor /usr/lib/news.
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                                  Mel Pleasant
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