> I am ready to start working on getting a usenet spool into AFS
> again...
>
>I assume you're doing this so that multiple clients can access the news
>through afs. This seems like a bad idea to me. You'll run into the same
>problem Andrew did, too many directory callbacks. There is already a news
>reading protocol, and being special-purpose, it's better suited to the task
>than afs is. Why not use it? Or did you have something else in mind?
We plan on using NNTP for typical news reading, but we also have a
project which needs access to the news spool area for reading news
file-based. Since all of these machines already have AFS, it seemed
to make sense to provide this access though AFS.
-matthew
