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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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