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- From: cs000rdw@selway.umt.edu (Richard D Warner)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Setting up UUCP network
- Keywords: Strategies
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.030219.13631@selway.umt.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 03:02:19 GMT
- Organization: University of Montana
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- I work for an agency that divides the state into four areas and
- has about eighteen field offices per area. We want a good email network for the
- state. Important goals are reliable point-to-point UUCP mail, plus a news
- network. We have a state office plus four area offices.
- There are a number of point-to-point strategies we've been looking at.
- For one, we could have all machines know all other machines in the whole
- State. This is fastest, but less reliable because each field office has
- to maintain all the links. A more reliable approach seems to be to have
- all of the field offices feed into an area office, which forwards the calls
- to the state office or the other area.
- You get the idea. Plus, we have access to the much-talked-about
- FTS 2000 services, but don't really know how to put it to the best use.
- My question is what sources (such as white papers, books, etc.) are available
- to help us plan out this network? We need strategy information, tradeoffs,
- design considerations, that sort of thing. Plus, this FTS 2000 is really
- a wild card at this point. Any help in that arena would be appreciated.
- Thanks in advance.
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- R.D. Warner
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