Miami Computing & Information Services (MCIS) announces conversion
to the University's new central Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
server.
 
     As announced previously, effective today (Thursday, 29 June),
NetNews is being made available to the Miami University community from
one centralized NNTP server (NNTP.MUOhio.Edu).
 
     In two weeks the separate NetNews servers which previously supplied
NetNews to the centrally managed, multi-user systems (MiamiU, the IBM
VM/CMS system, and MiaVX1, the Digital OpenVMS system in Oxford) will be
turned off.  NetNews will be provided solely from one central server,
greatly expediting management while also improving performance and making
more efficient use of Miami's computing resources.
 
     Please note:
 
     One minor inconvenience of the conversion from multiple NetNews
servers to one central NetNews server is the change in article numbering
which will occur when individual users begin using the new newsreaders
on MiamiU and MiaVX1 or when their NNTP clients on the desktop or other
Miami University computing systems begin receiving NetNews from the
new server.  The effect of this change is that previously read articles
will appear as unread.
 
     Please refer any comments, problems and suggestions to the MCIS
Help Desk by electronic mail at [log in to unmask] or by telephone at
529-7900.
 
     Thank you.
 
--
                                John B Harlan
             Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) Coordinator
                         Miami University (Ohio USA)
                      http://WWW.MUOhio.Edu/~HarlanJB/
        (513) 529-5330     (513) 529-1496 fax     [log in to unmask]