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Date:      Wed, 14 Jun 1995 19:02:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:      jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley)
To:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: news software - which to use ?
Message-ID:  <m0sM1Rv-0006SmC@bagend.atl.ga.us>
In-Reply-To: <199506141505.AAA27167@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jun 15, 95 00:35:17 am

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Michael Smith wrote:
> My last reading of the release documentation for Cnews was that the
> involved parties had lost interest in any further development.

Okay, I overreacted. :)  I am a patch behind ... waiting for 2.0.5 to
convert from Linux before I spend days compiling new software :) but
this is news to me.  I can imagine that Henry and Geoff could get to
that point ... but really ... vast numbers of sites *still* use uucp
and a modem for news and Cnews still fits that need perfectly.
 
> If there's no significant news traffic, INN just soaks your swap.  Swap is
> cheap 8)  If you want a _small_ news system, I recommend Wnews.

not when it comes out of your lunch money, and memory still isn't.

> Cnews configuration can be a real heartache for the uninitiated, but then
> again, so can INN.  YMMV.

Ya, well I thought that when I changed over from Bnews too, but I got
used to it and INN looks real messy to me. :)
-- 
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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