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• The paradigm shifts involved
  
  
  • Spool: move away from a single, local spool, to a remote NNTP model
    
    
    • Use efficient NNTP for transit instead of NFS, retrieving by Message-ID: instead of by /news/spool/path, eliminating the need to have the same software at each level of the new distributed network
      
      
    • Spool server becomes conceptually trivial, being simply a network appliance that knows how to store and retrieve Message-ID's, which can be done with INN, Typhoon, or other packages in addition to/instead of Diablo