From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 20 13:33:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from benge.graphics.cornell.edu (benge.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C97614C8D for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:33:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mkc@benge.graphics.cornell.edu) Received: from benge.graphics.cornell.edu (mkc@localhost) by benge.graphics.cornell.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00326; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:33:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mkc@benge.graphics.cornell.edu) Message-Id: <200001202133.QAA00326@benge.graphics.cornell.edu> To: "David Fuchs" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INN vs. DNews In-Reply-To: Message from "David Fuchs" of "Thu, 20 Jan 2000 13:13:45 PST." <008c01bf638b$3c4322e0$0201a8c0@uniserve.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:33:30 -0500 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >:) Me too. > > The question still stands however, which is the better program to use >for a full time news server? I don't care about which is easier to set up, >but what I do care about is which is the most stable, the fastest, and the >most scalable (if scalability even applies for news)? Scalability seems to matter as much for news as anything else. Look how much it grows. I really can't answer for DNews since I've never even looked at it, but I've been running the same version of INN for 7 years (on the same now-ancient machine) and the only thing holding it back is lack of disk space. It has been increadibly stable over that period even though I'm probably many versions behind by now. I've applied a few security fixed over the years and have had to rebuild the history file maybe once every year or two. FWIW I _am_ planning on building a new server sometime in the next several weeks. Ludditism does have it's limits. :-) -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message