[EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
> Michael Fagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The one observation I have made so far is that many things seem to
> > travel over the (slow) link twice. For example, I read my mail from a
> > POP server using (emacs) mh. When I type "inc" the mail travels from
> > the POP server to my home machine. Then the mail is written to my
> > home directory, which is in AFS, causing the *same* piece of data to
> > travel back across the slow link to some AFS file server.
[...]
> I have to confess that I don't know much about POP. Can the POP
> server can be convinced to write directly into AFS on your behalf?
> That sounds like it would probably complicate POP greatly.
He could, on the other hand, run inc on some machine connected by a
fast lan to the AFS server for his directory. That would seem like the
simple and efficient solution.
Perry
