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- hmmm. If you were running a WWW "http" gateway, I suppose you
- could do a big pile of caching - rather than have every individual
- user go out to the world to fetch documents individually, they
- would go to your relay server which might well have the things
- they were interested in already.
-
- Such things have also been proposed for FTP servers, I guess I
- would add -- you'd connect to a local caching FTP server, from
- which you could 'cd' to other anonymous FTP sites; if the local
- cache didn't have what you wanted it'd go off to the real place
- to get it.
-
- Fortunately gopher and WWW both seem more amenable to
- hacking^H^H^H^H^H^H^H research in this regard than the
- usual FTP demon.
-
- w/r/t size - like I say I don't want to have hard coded limits
- for things, but people doing design need to keep in mind that
- if a menu pick results in a megabyte worth of text being thrown
- at my client I'm not going to be happy about it...
-
- --Ed
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