pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham) (06/17/91)
bajan@cs.mcgill.ca (Alan Emtage) writes: |(4) There is an archie server in production in Australia and Europe seems |to be in beta testing. There have been problems bringing archie online |because of certain implementation flaws, primarily memory usage for |database updates. Mea culpa. Also, we have been talking with a number of |North American sites about providing archie service and hope to have them |up soon. One of the big problems here is maintenance since there is no way |currently to automate resource discovery (specifically anonymous FTP |sites) on the Internet. at the archivists bof (about which more later) i suggested to peter that the database and the query engine/back-ends be distributed (widely in fact). he seemed to think this a good idea. the number of sites that collect the data (assuming the existing model) should be minimized but the number of sites that answer queries should be maximized. -- pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu / rutgers!ub!pjg / pjg@ubvms (Bitnet) opinions found above are mine unless marked otherwise.