[news.sysadmin] Source archive experiences?

scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller) (12/08/89)

I've got a fairly sizable Usenet source archive that I am considering making
available either by an email server or anonymous UUCP or both.  I am interested
in hearing from people who are running archives of either type, or who have
been email neighbors of sites that have run servers.

What sorts of things have been major considerations for archive sites?  If I
were to run a server, I would guess that the most important potential problem
would be the increased email traffic passing through my neighbor sites.  For
anonymous UUCP, I would consider modem availability to be the most important
concern, e.g., if someone started a very long transfer on my currently-only
data line.  What kinds of problems with security are there?  Are there other
things that I am missing?

Thanks for any comments,
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jya00@walt.testeng.amdahl.com (112 x8180) (12/15/89)

As a followup to the previous article, could someone tell me where I
can get the source that will allow me to set up an archive server?

	thanks
	john

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John Y. Arrasjid
Amdahl Corporation, 1250 E. Arques Ave., M/S 140, Sunnyvale, CA 94088
+1 408 746-8180
Usenet  : {sun,uunet,decwrl,attunix,hplabs}!amdahl!walt!jya00
Internet: jya00@walt.testeng.amdahl.com
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Amdahl Corporation, 1250 E. Arques Ave., M/S 140, Sunnyvale, CA 94088
+1 408 746-8180
Usenet  : {sun,uunet,decwrl,attunix,hplabs}!amdahl!walt!jya00
Internet: jya00@walt.testeng.amdahl.com

bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) (12/15/89)

I have a number of servers available via e-mail. There is the tiny
one I use myself, the netlib server, and the decwrl server. To
get information about my server, you can send the following
message to comp-archives-server@twwells.com:

	path jya00@walt.testeng.amdahl.com
	send help

(Substitute your e-mail address if you aren't John Y. Arrasjid.)

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