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Subject: Re: Suggestion, Authenticated news server mirroring CCC

Author: Tim Mirabile

Date: 10:19:15 10/17/97

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On October 17, 1997 at 12:30:06, Ren Wu wrote:

>I think a standard PC with enough memory, running Linux, will be enough
>for this. So the cost is only about a PC's cost. Linux is free, and you
>can download it from the net. NNTP server too. The major cost seems the
>cost to connect to the net. Since you already have the connection, this
>should not be a problem too.

I just want to clear up the fact that we do not actually have a high
speed connection in our store.  Our web site is maintained via modem.
And we have Web services only, we cannot run an NNTP server or mailing
list without paying additional costs.

>The main advantage for using a nntp server is that we can use our
>farvite news reader, like tin in unix/linux, Agent on NT/95 etc, and
>this is a real time saver.

Agreed, but for now, the web is the only way for us to offer it.



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