From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 14 15:50:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA03103 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 15:50:39 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA03091 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 15:50:38 -0700 Received: from bagend.UUCP by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.14) via UUCP id AA09906 ; Wed, 14 Jun 95 18:50:34 -0400 Received: by bagend.atl.ga.us (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sM1FL-0006SmC; Wed, 14 Jun 95 18:49 EDT Message-Id: From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Subject: Re: news software - which to use ? To: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 18:49:15 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9506141614.AA10133@sonic.nmti.com.nmti.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Jun 14, 95 11:14:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1072 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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