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From: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.admin
Subject: Is UUNET going to upgrade?
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Date: 8 Jun 91 21:06:44 GMT
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	Does anyone know if UUNET is going to get an upgrade soon? I know
about their recent upgrade, but I've been experiencing severe delays when
communicating with them -- sometimes so severe my machine timeouts and
stops talking.
	It sounds like their Sequent is all decked out and can't be
upgraded any further. Is this true? What I was thinking would be beneficial
for them is if they split into two or three hub computers, rather than
just their main one. They could place these computers around the U.S.
in strategic locations (kind of like major-POPs). 
	This would be beneficial for them since it would reduce the
load on any one machine. If they NFS mounted their files across the
network, then they wouldn't have to have their whole archive on one
computer too.
	I think it's time UUNET expanded. What do you others think?
Replies to comp.mail.uucp or news.admin please, I want to get a 
discussion going.

	- Jiro Nakamura
	jiro@shaman.com


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