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From: lamy@AI.UTORONTO.CA (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Subject: Re: news via NFS
Message-ID: <89Sep8.010422edt.2191@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
References: <28527@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: 8 Sep 89 05:05:30 GMT

mwolf@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Michael Wolf) writes:

>I'd like to install news on our network gateway machine, and
>make the news files available across the network via NFS.  Is
>there any reason why this wont work?  Also, is there something
>about NNTP which makes it better the NFS for providing news
>to everyone's workstation?  We're running a Sun shop, so there
>aren't any computers that don't have NFS.

Reading news over NFS has the advantage you don't have to fiddle with
newsreaders that expect a spool.  We use NFS to give access to the spool
directories, and NNTP to exchange news and do centralized posting.

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4