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Re: NFS vs NNTP for news reading - Suggestions for Xenix?

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From: WSHB Operations Eng
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:27
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>> I'd strongly recommend NNTP-only.
>
>I'd recommend NFS for reading, news soft-mounted read-only, NNTP for
>posting.

OK, not all of us have a network of Suns. I currently have several Xenix 
machines that pass newsfeeds over the serial port with uucp. In the near 
future we'll be installing ethernet between them and several other machines. 
Since Xenix doesn't support NFS, I had planned to dedicate one of the Xenix 
boxes as an NNTP server with no actual users, and put all of the users on 
other machines to do their thing. News will be read and posted via NNTP. 
Does anyone have a better suggestion? I currently have B-news 2.11 but plan 
to change to whatever is the latest release of C-news when the big switch 
occurs. All of the readers currently use trn. I plan to install nn after 
the change.

Thanks for any pointers.

Michael
-- 
Michael Batchelor--Systems/Operations Engineer #compliments and complaints
WSHB - An International Broadcast Station of   #   letterbox@csms.com
       Herald Broadcasting Syndicate, Inc.     #technical questions and reports
michaelb@wshb.csms.com         +1 803 625 5552 #   letterbox-tech@csms.com
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From: michaelb@wshb.csms.com ( WSHB Operations Eng)
Subject: Re: NFS vs NNTP for news reading - Suggestions for Xenix?
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