Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: Re: .newsrc across the network Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 89 02:45:56 GMT References: <1510@intercon.com> <10082@ucsd.Edu> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 19 In-reply-to: brian@ucsd.Edu's message of 28 Oct 89 07:18:46 GMT In article <10082@ucsd.Edu> brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor) writes: In today's world of high-power workstations, I don't think that's efficient use of the server, but it's an implementation question that is site-configurable. Every undergrad at Clarkson gets a computer. It's a Z-248, a 8 Mhz, 0 wait state, 512K memory, 360K floppy, 1.2 Meg floppy running MS-LOSS. I'm going to try to convince our administration to network these machines. In order to do this, I need to show them that the students are going to be able to *do* something with them. One of these "killer apps" is going to be netnews. Unless a student can sit down at a PC (not necessarily their own personal machine) and read news, I can't see how it will be acceptable. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee. A recession now appears more than 2 years away -- John D. Mathon, 4 Oct 1989.