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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Personal netnodes?
Message-ID: <388@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Jun-85 17:40:26 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 15 17:40:26 1985
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]From: sommers@topaz.ARPA (Mamaliz @ The Soup Kitchen)
]Organization: The NJ Home for Perverted Hackers
]Message-ID: <2283@topaz.ARPA>
]
]>What happens when the Ken Arndts and Frank Adrians of the net cease to
]>be random users and become sites?
]
]I think you might be confusing the USENET and netnews.  The net is a lot
]more then netnews.  They will probably be able to deal with their mail
]more efficiently.  I doubt that they would even bother to install netnews
]software....I know I can't spare any disk space on a 45 meg disk for
]flaming.  They probably already have terminals at home, does this make
]them sites?

I have to admit I have made the common mistake of equating USENET and
netnews. From the responses I have seen, there are a number of mail-only
sites which could be considered "personal" netnodes.

Let's restrict the discussion,then to the idea of a "personal" netnews
site. I am sure that there are many users (students, etc.) who do not
really use/need the electronic mail and file transfer capability of USENET,
but who just read the news. In this sense, the net is nothing more than a
large version of a BBS or Compuserve.

Let's say that one of these people suddenly finds himself cut from the net.
(gets a job at a non-UNIX shop, site becomes mail-only, etc.) It is not
unreasonable for this person to go out, buy a 7300 or an XT running XENIX,
find himself a feed, and have a few groups forwarded to him.

This scenario was what I originally intended to discuss. If nothing else,
a large number of such sites would tend to increase the load on the sites
feeding them.


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