Newsgroups: news.software.b
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Which should I use? B or C?
Message-ID: <1989Nov15.181852.2429@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Nov6.195132.4345@millipore.uucp> <1572@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1989Nov8.035748.24911@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <1989Nov9.102613.16627@eda.com> <6906@ficc.uu.net> <1989Nov12.010539.7360@utzoo.uucp> <6936@ficc.uu.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 89 18:18:52 GMT

In article <6936@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>How about uucp-ed multi-machine setups hiding behind a single name, with
>a single password file and user base?

Assuming that the machine don't share filesystems, the only real issue
here for a news system is the need to hide the internal structure from
the outside world.  This will mean some tinkering with Path headers and
such on outbound news.  It should not be very hard to fit such a thing
in -- it would mean using a smarter variant of the "batcher" program
for external feeds -- but we don't have it off the shelf.  Neither of
us is familiar enough with such systems to be sure exactly what's wanted.
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