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From: wollman@NEWTON.UVM.EDU (Garrett Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: .amsalien
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Date: 1 Feb 91 00:45:51 GMT
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Does anybody out there use .amsalien for a netnews database?  What kind
of daemons, etc., do you run for it?  [We can't afford the disk space
to duplicate our news spool specifically for AMS...]  Has anyone worked
out some documentation for it (more than the gragmentary note at the beginning
of Bboards.ins)?

Is there a way to make such daemons work without write permission on the
news spool itself?  [In just testing it, today, I tried creating
symbolic links from ~/.MESSAGES_public/nn (the root is also $LOCAL) under
my UID, but it didn't like that idea...

-GAWollman