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In article <WSX-Wh_@engin.umich.edu> zmonster@engin.umich.edu (Eric Hermanson)  
writes:
> 
>   I noticed that  sonata.cc.purdue.edu and nova.cc.purdue.edu  have almost
> exactly the same NeXT archive files, with a few differences here and there.
> Since these two sites are the major archive spots, why not consolidate
> the files into one site?   If that is too much traffic for one site,
> then why not make the two sites have the identical files so one does not
> have to search both sites?  It is confusing the way it is set up right now.

Sonata is in a public lab at Purdue (three floors below me
and down the hall).  Nova is right in front of me.  They share
a common drive via NFS.  It's physically in sonata because
I need my ODrive.  As a result, they have >exactly< the same
files in /usr/ftp.

It'd be a lot harder for me to maintain the Archives
without my NFS mount.  I expect most people to ftp to
sonata, but nova works too.  The mail server actually runs
on nova.  It and I are the two main users of nova.  Sonata has
about 350 accounts, but most of those people use other
machines unless the lab is full. 

If you don't want to get confused, just ignore nova.  You
can ftp to either identically, and mail for
archive-server gets forwarded to nova from any
cc.purdue.edu machine.  I'd rather people ftp to sonata,
at least when I'm here, because it does slow nova down a bit
to handle ftp connections. 

> Maybe there could be four or five central sites set up across the US (or  
world)
> so that everyone knows where to look for NeXT stuff.  I realize this may be 
> hard to do, however, so what do YOU think?  I feel that in the near future
> there will be a huge flux of NeXT related software that will be written, and
> it would be nice to have a convienent "filing" system on the internet.

There are only a few big sites for NeXT stuff.  Sonata/nova
is here at Purdue (that's in Indiana).  Cs.orst is in
Oregon.  That's the bulk of the stuff in the US.  I try to keep
everything here, but because of distance, people on the
left coast often try orst first.

NOC lists other US sites as well, but most of them are more
specialized.

Allen B (Living at Ground Zero)