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From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Distributed Filesystems vs. NNTP at large sites.
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Date: 26 Sep 89 18:36:50 GMT
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pleasant@porthos.rutgers.edu (Mel Pleasant) wrote: 
->In article <WESOMMER.89Sep25144628@anubis.athena.mit.edu> wesommer@athena.mit.edu (William Sommerfeld) writes:
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->> Why aren't more people using remote file systems of one sort or another?    
->
->This question really surprises me.  

i don't believe this was bill's question (it was someone else's
question).  

i also don't believe that we are particularly interested in
NFS-mounting /usr/spool/news on one thousand clients (and yes, the
order of magnitude here is correct).

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