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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 09:38:49 -0400
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There is a caching server that runs on VMS, I believe.  It's a slave server
that keeps local copies of desired articles, and periodically
updates its master list of what is out there.  I think it comes from
someone inside DEC, and actually is a DECnotes/Usenet gateway.

I don't know a great deal about it, except that someone on NEARnet
was using it and I helped Dan Long figure out why the machine
was getting hammered.  We told them they couldn't use that command
when connecting to nic.near.net.  If you want more details, long@nic.near.net
can give you a pointer to the host that is/was running it, I believe.
	/r$