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From: geof@aurora.com (Geoffrey H. Cooper)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,news.software.b,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Looking for advice: news/mail software on '386 machine
Summary: NFS remote news experience
Keywords: news mail uucp network 386 nntp
Message-ID: <1990Aug6.181507.15378@aurora.com>
Date: 6 Aug 90 18:15:07 GMT
References: <937@progress.UUCP>
Reply-To: geof@aurora.UUCP (Geoffrey H. Cooper)
Organization: The Aurora Group, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <937@progress.UUCP> erf@progress.UUCP (Eric Feigenson) writes:
>The initial idea was to run nntp on the '386 and use rrn to read the
>news on the workstations and other machines.  Does this make sense?
>Would it make more sense to try to NFS mount a filesystem from the '386
>(this doesn't make any immediate sense, due to potential byte ordering
>problems in the control files)?  

Don't know much about rrn, so I can't comment on that.  Sounds ideal
for what you want to do, since the '386 should have lots of spare cycles.

We cross-mount /usr/spool/news on four SPARC's, with the SPARC that
has the real /usr/spool/news being used as a regular workstation.  The
results are extremely good, with good performance on each reading
machine and little load on the host machine.

- Geof
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