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- From: gavin@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Gavin K. Longmuir)
- Newsgroups: alt.galactic-guide
- Subject: Re: TUG! 2 --> (The Net Guide)
- Date: 25 Jan 93 01:19:07 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
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- Message-ID: <gavin.727924747@sorokin>
- References: <C0x499.2r3@cs.nott.ac.uk> <gavin.727489695@sorokin> <C17KEw.2u6@florence>
- Reply-To: gavin@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Gavin Longmuir)
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- Keywords: TUG admin network gopher irc tcp-ip
- Organisation: Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
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- dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (`Grave' Dave Gymer) writes:
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- >In article <gavin.727489695@sorokin> gavin@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Gavin Longmuir) writes:
- >>dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (`Grave' Dave Gymer) writes:
- >[...]
- >>This looks like a great idea, but I can see some problems - with a networked
- >>system and site that runs a server must be able to add new articles to the
- >>'database' and tell all other servers if has this new information (the info
- >>should only be transferred if required). Perhaps I'm talking about some kinda
- >>cross between IRC and the gopher.
-
- >Well, I as thinking that each server (other than the `root' one) would at some
- >point in time pull down the index from some other server or set of servers,
- >see what was new or changed, and then pull down those articles into its local
- >database. In making each server responsible for its own database, we also
- >allow it to set its own policy about when to update stuff; each server could
- >also refuse to service certain hosts at certain times, thus allowing it to set
- >a policy on when it will allow other servers to update from its database.
-
- But should there be a 'root' node?
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- TNG shouldn't be tied down to any one node or group of admin.
-
- Gavin.
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