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11    : What can Archives offer the World Wide Web?
        (Neil Smith)

ftp archive sites are well known throughout the Internet
community for their wealth of useful information. UNIX HENSA is
perhaps one of the better known academic archives in the United
Kingdom. In this paper the roles of these archive sites are
examined with a view to what they can provide the World Wide Web
community.  The Web suffers from virtually the same problems as
standard ftp; slow networks, overloaded serving hosts, and the
immense difficulty of finding information spread across the
globe. Fortunately, it seems that just as Archive sites have
helped alleviate some of these problems for ftp users, they
should be able to do the same for Web users. In this paper I
shall demonstrate how, at the UNIX HENSA Archive, we have been
investigating this possibility.