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In article <1992Aug24.201037.9626@eecs.nwu.edu> garyc@eecs.nwu.edu (Gary I.  
Chang) writes:
> Has anyone tried using NG to read news from a flat file? For our system,
> incoming news are kept in the /usr/spool/news/comp/sys/next/..... directory.
> Since I only subscribe to some certain groups, the c.s.n.... It's a pretty
> good idea to set the cron to uucp news into my machine every night 2:00am when
> the network traffic is lightly loaded. 
> 
> 	I understand using nntp, you always get the first-handed news; but 
> sometimes, the SLIP line is not that easy to dial in, besides you don't get
> spining disk for reading large posts on the slow modem. (Usually my NeXT
> cries when reading some NeXT article with icons and pictures...)
> 
> 	By the way, I remember a while ago, someone was going to post the
> UUCP installation for NeXT to the archive after the final revision? Is it
> finished?
> 
> Gary

We have always read news from flat files.  Here is our setup:

	Machine A: has modem, is our uucp connection to the world
	Machine B: our disk server, news files are stored there
	Machines C thru whatever: nothing special, just on the LAN

Machine A dials out to our provider at regular intervals to upload/download mail  
and news.  The news directories on Machine B are mounted via NFS to all  
machines, including Machine A.  The news processing software (in our case,  
c-news) believes, of course, that the news directories are local, and runs on  
Machine A and at 1:15am daily to upload and download news (we also upload news,  
and both upload and download mail, every 2 hrs. between 7:45am and 5:45pm).  All  
our machines run NewsGrazer with the flat-file option set in preferences, since  
the news directories appear to be local.

This works fine for us.  We only have a modem connection to the outside world,  
which we use as sparingly as we are comfortable with (to keep costs down - we're  
a small company).  I don't really know anything about nntp, but I can't imagine  
that it could be an improvement for us over what we do now.  I could be wrong  
about that; if so, please enlighten me.  Note that our overriding concern in  
using our modem is keeping cost to a minimum, since the phone number we call  
when we get/send mail and news is a toll call.

Michael

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