Re: NFS vs NNTP for news reading

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1 total messages Started by Geoff Collyer Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:37

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Author: Geoff Collyer
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:37

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Howard Hart:
>Don't forget that wonderful feature of NFS when partitions are mounted
>read/write (such as the case where you have to mount the news batch
>directory read/write for users to post articles). Don't know about
>other machines, but on Sun's, if you loose the server, the client
>hangs indefinitely [...]  I'd strongly recommend NNTP-only.

That seems a poor reason to use NNTP for reading.  Mount the news spool
read-only, and "soft" or "intr", and post via NNTP or rsh.  I strongly
recommend NFS-only reading (as distinct from posting).
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Geoff Collyer		world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff

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