chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui) (11/29/84)
The other day I put out a feeler to see whether or not there was interest
in a distributed news system. The response has already been phenomenal, so
I'm going to set up a mailing list to coordinate the discussion and see
whether or not we can put together a design and perhaps get started
implementing it. If you are interested in joining this group and you
haven't already contacted me, please let me know. I'll be creating the list
in a few days and will send out an introductory note to it then.
I'm setting this up as a mailing list because I feel that most of the
volume generated by it will have a limited interest to the general net
readers. We will keep the net informed as we go along and make our designs
available for public comment when we have something concrete, so please
don't ask to join unless you plan on perticipating.
(For those that missed the discussion, we are looking for a news system
that will allow us to store a single copy of the news data base and make it
available to a number of sites over a local area net such as ethernet
transparently to the rest of the network. Peripherally we might look at a
distributed mail system as well.
chuq
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