Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!GENBANK.BIO.NET!kristoff From: kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson) Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Re: DNA and Protein Sequencing Workshop Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 22:29:59 GMT Sender: kristoff@genbank.bio.net Lines: 43 (unmentionable stuff deleted but the gist of it concerned getting a news feed from another campus computer) > ... DOESNOT want our VAX to be a direct news feed as he doesn't want > to duplicate the storage. What do you suggest? Could you list our options > directly to the Net as I think the problem is one of understanding both > the problem with e-mail as a news feed and understanding the various > options as solutions. If your VAX is to be a client of the Engineering computer's VAX then you will need news software that supports NNTP clients and servers. I am not sure that ANU-NEWS does this, but I am checking with others here who are more familiar with it than I. The limitation here will be the speed of the connection between your two machines. I would assume that you have an Ethernet link because anything slower might be annoying. Another option is to have a newsfeed of just the bionet groups to your local VAX. You can limit the number of USENET groups that you receive. The bionet groups would not require very much extra storage on your machine and might give you slightly better response. The news software can also be configured to delete messages older than X number of days although you can also exempt individual groups like bionet.journals.contents if you want to save the TOC postings. > Personally "The-News" and > the other Mac based net news readers are not worth a damn compared to > e-mail. I was also annoyed by the delays even over the Ethernet involved in transferring messages from the server to the Mac. News software is not that hard to use and a good case can be made for running it directly on the server if you know how to edit messages on that machine. The main advantage to the Mac programs is the availability of Mac-like editing. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net