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From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
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Subject: A thought about archie (was Re: The status of archie
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Date: 17 Jun 91 07:16:40 GMT
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bajan@cs.mcgill.ca (Alan Emtage) writes:
|(4) There is an archie server in production in Australia and Europe seems
|to be in beta testing.  There have been problems bringing archie online
|because of certain implementation flaws, primarily memory usage for
|database updates. Mea culpa. Also, we have been talking with a number of
|North American sites about providing archie service and hope to have them
|up soon. One of the big problems here is maintenance since there is no way
|currently to automate resource discovery (specifically anonymous FTP
|sites) on the Internet.

at the archivists bof (about which more later) i suggested to peter
that the database and the query engine/back-ends be distributed
(widely in fact).  he seemed to think this a good idea.  the number
of sites that collect the data (assuming the existing model) should
be minimized but the number of sites that answer queries should be
maximized.

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