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From: keith@motel6.UUCP (Keith Packard)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Personal netnodes?
Message-ID: <167@motel6.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 00:00:53 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 00:00:53 1985
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In article <695@vortex.UUCP> lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) writes:
>There's a major reason why people will tend to want personal nodes
>rather than simple logins.  With a personal node, they have most of the
>mail/news handling software on their local machine and often have the 
>data flowing in when they're not around.  This way they don't have
>to handle all the messages at relatively low speeds--they can instead
>operate at very fast local speeds with their own fast local
>editors.  It makes a BIG difference.  I could never handle the mail/news
>load I have now (even though I've cut way back on news) if I wasn't
>doing it locally.  Even 2400 bps seems like a snail's pace for reading
>messages...
>
>--Lauren--

I agree.  I just got my personal net-node working this week.  Previously
I was reading news through a 1200 baud modem, wading through the headers
and waiting for interesting bits to be displayed was the pits.  Now
all of my news arrives after 2am.  Although that link is still 1200 baud,
the overhead of rn is not involved and the stuff is compressed -
giving it a much greater effective speed.

Although I only have a few meg of space for news, I simply expire news
more than three days old - when you go on vacation for two weeks do you
bother to read the paper when you return?

I suspect new owners of small unix engines will probably do similar
things; hook their machines up to the one at work to receive news at
night.  I'll bet their employers would be happy to use a few extra
cpu cycles at 4am rather than have their employees waste time at work
playing with the network.

Keith
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