- From: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@netscape.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 21:22:48 -0700 (PDT)
- To: danny@miriworld.its.unimelb.edu.au (Daniel O'Callaghan)
- Cc: isdmill@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us, benjamin@hanover.demon.co.uk, brogers@integctr.com, firewalls@greatcircle.com, www-proxy@w3.org
> Its on my wish list. I don't think it will make it to the *do* list, > other than maybe hacking CERN proxy server to cache news articles. > I remember Ari said caching news was bad, but I never understood why, I said that because the news articles get retrieved from a nearby news server anyway, so caching doesn't save that much. If you're thinking of getting load off the news server, then yes, it makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I can see my statement was unnecessarily stern, so I take it back -- caching news does make sense. > after all, articles don't change, they have static "urls" and have an > easily defined expiry dates. Yes. Cheers, -- Ari Luotonen ari@netscape.com Netscape Communications Corp. http://home.netscape.com/people/ari/ 501 East Middlefield Road Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Netscape Server Development Team
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