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• The paradigm shifts involved
  
  
  • Spool: move away from a single, local spool, to a remote NNTP model
    
    
    • Reader no longer has the responsibility of filing and storing individual articles while at the same time taking care of clients trying to read news
      
      
    • Allows for redundancy and topographic distribution of spools and front end reader servers
      
      
    • Allows for clever engineering, such as having one central spool with really long retention, and multiple smaller distributed spools: spend additional bandwidth to reduce the cost (and capacity) of remote spools, or vice versa