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- From: njw@cs.city.ac.uk (Nick Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: SNAP, remote message servers
- Message-ID: <AeYrxMy__5g8EdC1gA@cs.city.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 11:17:44 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Hey folx.<nl>
- <nl>
- I'm thinking of setting up our site such that <bold>messages</bold> uses the r=
- emote message server facilities. The hope is that this will cut down on the s=
- ize of the application performing the actual reading of the mail. This would a=
- llow more people to run messages in the timesharing-like system that we have h=
- ere.<nl>
- <nl>
- Does anyone have any experience of running SNAP with the basic andrew environm=
- ent (i.e. no AMDS or suchlike)? Any pitfalls that I should know about? Is it =
- even worth it---how much saving would I get? Is there any real documentation o=
- n setting it up?<nl>
- <nl>
- Also, what conclusion was there earlier (in mailing list timesense) about wher=
- e to get Macintosh/PC interfaces to the SNAP mechanism.<nl>
- <nl>
- Nick<nl>
- Nick Williams E-mail: njw@cs.city.ac.uk (MIME and ATK=
- )<nl>
- Systems Architecture Research Centre, Tel: +44 71 477 8551<nl>
- London, EC1V 0HB Fax: +44 71 477 8587<nl>
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