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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