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From: gary@rencon.UUCP (Gary Falsken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: APPLE2-L
Message-ID: <219@rencon.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 22:39:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: rencon.219
Posted: Tue Sep 15 22:39:12 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Sep-87 04:15:50 EDT
References: <8709090931.aa08129@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> <244@n8emr.UUCP>
Reply-To: gary@rencon.UUCP (Gary Falsken)
Organization: Renaissance Consulting, Fremont, Ca.
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In article <244@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes:
>Over the past few weeks a pattern seems to be emerging.  Though there are
>lots of folks on this group which have Bitnet access, there are also quite
>a few folks who do not.  Perhaps the solution on the uucp side is for one of
>you kind folk who own the machine that you are running on (or who are in good
>with the folks who do) to get a copy of the C uucp server software from
>Brian Reid (the guy who does the news.lists and the alt.gourmand groups) and
>bring it up on your system.  After it appears to be working, then someone
>on Bitnet could send to the archive site all files currently on Bitnet, as
>well as perhaps set up a friendly reminder to forware subsequent files to this
>uucp site.  Then uucp folks could submit requests for files on their transport
>mechinism and Bitnetter could do likewise on bitnet.
>
Larry's article struck a nerve.  As the owner of my own machine,  
a member of those who don't have Bitnet access, and would like to get
the archive info.  I would like to investigate a few items.

	1.  How much space does this archive take up?
	2.  How much space does this C uucp server software take?
	3.  How many request for this archive per day would you expect
	    to have?
	4.  How many modem lines do you think it would take?
	5.  What is the active period of an article?  How soon can it be
	    rolled out to tape or off-line storage?
	6.  How much time would it take to administer?
	7.  How can we make certain all articles will be posted to
	    the uucp archive site or sites?
	8.  I don't know anything about Bitnet, would I have to access
	    to it?

Well thats enough for now.  Lets see what we get from those?

Gary Falsken
Renaissance Consulting
{ptsfa,pyramid,hpscda,sun}!rencon!gary
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Gary Falsken
Renaissance Consulting
{ptsfa,pyramid,hpscda,sun}!rencon!gary
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