Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 18:49:15 -0400 (EDT) From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) To: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: news software - which to use ? Message-ID: <m0sM1FL-0006SmC@bagend.atl.ga.us> In-Reply-To: <9506141614.AA10133@sonic.nmti.com.nmti.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Jun 14, 95 11:14:03 am
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Peter da Silva wrote: > > cnews and nntp are stagnant. INN is _the_ news tool of choice. > > Cnews is the tool of choice if you do much UUCP. INN treats UUCP like a poor > relation. vast hordes of us still use uucp and a modem for usenet. As biff would say, cnews rules for this scenario. > I use a program called "slurp" to transport news over NNTP, because it gives > me a local sys file... I don't have to bother my feed about changes to my > subscription list. And it's receiver-driven so sceduling connections isn't > a problem. ARNO, the Atlanta Regional Network Organization, 99.99% of news that is read anywhere near Atlanta, pretty much runs off of cnews and dynafeed. gatech.edu and emory.edu run INN and batch the outgoing with dynafeed to ARNO sites via modem and just about everyone of the *many* hundreds of downstream sites use Cnews. I have not looked at slurp but I understand it does much the same thing as slurp. -- Jan Isley | If you couldn't find any weirdness, jan@bagend.atl.ga.us | maybe we'll just have to make some! - Hobbes
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