Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!intercon!news From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: Re: NNTP or NFS for sharing news? Message-ID: <26A63030.287F@intercon.com> Date: 19 Jul 90 22:12:00 GMT References: <1990Jul18.233115.25423@phri.nyu.edu> Sender: usenet@intercon.com (USENET The Magnificent) Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Herndon, VA Lines: 12 In article , jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) writes: > It's probably better to use NNTP than NFS to let clients read news. It all depends. In particular, for a server serving many simultaneous clients, NFS is probably better, since you won't clog the server with copies of nntpd. This will reduce the load on the server, and keep performance up. For a big site, I'd say "read with NFS, post with NNTP." -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation