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In article <1992Jul22.183814.10671@Trirex.COM> tswan@trirex.com (Todd Swan)  
writes:
> Well, there are two ways.  First, you could use NFS to share the relevent  
> directories with the other machines.  Or, second, (and better) run NNTP.   
> I just installed it here and it took about 1 hour.  You can get the source  
> from uunet (ftp.uu.net).

I have two questions about NNTP, but first let me describe our net.  We have one  
NeXT machine with a fax/modem that is responsible for calling for e-mail and  
news.  We have several NeXT machines (the first one included) that use  
NewsGrazer to read/post.  Our server is a Sun with a huge disk.  The modem NeXT  
does not have the capacity to store news, the Sun server does.  We share out the  
Sun directories via NFS as in the first method above, so from the perspective of  
the c-news software that runs on the modem NeXT, the news directories are local.   
All the other NeXTs, of course, also see the directories as local when running  
NewsGrazer.  Nobody ever logs in to the Sun except for administrative stuff.

Here are the questions:

        1. Generally (i.e. without specific reference to our network
           configuration), what is the advantage of NNTP over shared NFS
           directories.

        2. Would NNTP be better for our particular network, and why?

Please assume I know nothing about NNTP (which is very near the truth).  I  
posted this rather than e-mailing because a general discussion on news and NNTP  
will most likely benefit many people; there must be other networks out there  
with a configuration similar to ours.

Thanx,
Michael

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