rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees) (12/06/84)
I had no problem getting our news system to work over our local net. The Apollo file system is already distributed, so no matter where I put the new spool directory, everyone can get at it. We currently have 600 machines with about 1200 users all using the same news spool directory. I didn't have to make any changes to the news software to get this to work. Although not necessary, I did change the message-ID to indicate which machine the article originated on. The second hex number in the message-ID is the node ID (serial number) of the originating machine.