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From: Steve Bacher
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1992 23:26

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>Arguments for NFS (w/NNTP for posting):
>
...
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>     5. If your server goes down, your readers can leave their news
>        reading programs running (but hung) and start reading again
>        immediately when the server comes back up.  (In my opinion,
>        this is kind of a weak argument, but there it is nonetheless.)

A good NNTP news reader will have an automatic reconnect capability
anyway.  Depending on NFS for this feature is misguided.

>Arguments for NNTP (maybe with NFS export of the thread databases):
>
...
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>     3. NFS isn't always readily available on the machines that readers
>        use.  For instance, they might have a PC or a Mac in which case
>        NFS is expensive and NNTP based news readers are free (or cheap).

Or an IBM mainframe, which is not an NFS client and will never be.


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Steve Bacher (Batchman)                 Draper Laboratory
Internet: seb@draper.com                Cambridge, MA, USA

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