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1.1     ! root        1:      I am sending the following note to you because you all had expressed
        !             2: interest at one time or another in either running, beta testing, or
        !             3: somethin-elsing the remote netnews software which I have been working
        !             4: on here at Berkeley.  This is basically a status report of where I
        !             5: am in the project, and what remains to be done.  If you'd like to help
        !             6: work on the project, or make suggestions or flames, those are welcome.
        !             7: My apologies for not doing this sooner.
        !             8: 
        !             9:      The status of the server is as follows: I have modified
        !            10: "rn" to run with it, and it works quite well.  It's very fast (although
        !            11: long net.sources articles tend to drag over the net), and it is a full
        !            12: implementation of "rn", except for the fact that you cannot post news.
        !            13: I intend to correct this by hacking at inews, so it knows how to forward
        !            14: to the server machine over the net when a newsgroup isn't local.
        !            15: 
        !            16:      The problem here, is, as usual, time.  For one thing, the daemon runs
        !            17: under inetd, which is a recent Berkeley development, and I'm not sure it
        !            18: exists elsewhere.  So, the daemon needs to be rewritten to stand on its
        !            19: own.  Second, the daemon currently forks off one copy of itself per
        !            20: request; this could quickly drive a machine into the groud.  It
        !            21: needs to be modified such that one server can handle about 10 users, and
        !            22: then fork off a copy.  Finally, inews needs to be patched as I've mentioned
        !            23: above.
        !            24: 
        !            25:      Of course, none of this is necessarilly conforming to the info-lan
        !            26: discussion group which Chuq has been running.  So I have no idea how
        !            27: compatible this will be when all is said and done.
        !            28: 
        !            29:      On top of all this, school starts tomorrow and it will be a hectic
        !            30: semester.  Since the only time I have for this is my own, and that's
        !            31: precious little, I don't know when I will get around to doing the stuff
        !            32: that needs be done.
        !            33: 
        !            34:      So, the end result is that you're welcome to a copy of the modified
        !            35: "rn" software (it's about a meg, and it's all #ifdef'd, so you simply
        !            36: define SERVER and compile it).  If you wish to do this, let me know.
        !            37: And offers to help will be greatly appreciated.
        !            38: 
        !            39:                                                Phil Lapsley
        !            40:                                                ([email protected])
        !            41:                                                (...!ucbvax!phil)

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