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1.3. Central Storage of News

1.3. Central Storage of News

For clusters of hosts connected together by fast local area networks (such as Ethernet), it makes even more sense to consolidate news distribution onto one (or a very few) hosts, and to allow access to these news articles using a server and client model. Subscribers may then request only the articles they wish to see, without having to wastefully duplicate the storage of a copy of each item on each host.


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