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From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: novice Gnews questions
Keywords: Gnews, nntp, gnu
Message-ID: <25090@bbn.COM>
Date: 26 May 88 19:32:48 GMT
References: <1075@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> <1076@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: sdy@ssc-vax.UUCP (Steven D. Yee -- Mr. Thrint)

In article <1076@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>, sdy@ssc-vax (Steven D. Yee -- Mr. Thrint) writes:
>since I only received 2 replies to my plea I can assume that non-nntp
>usage is fairly rare (ihnp4!cray!hrp, jr, and me :-)

... and I don't even use it.  After getting it working, I found that
on a pretty heavily-used ethernet, it is faster to use nntp than to
NFS mount /usr/spool/news from the same remote machine.
-- 
/jr
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