From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 14 16:07:23 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA03606 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 16:07:23 -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 QAA03600 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 16:07:21 -0700 Received: from bagend.UUCP by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.14) via UUCP id AA10461 ; Wed, 14 Jun 95 19:07:13 -0400 Received: by bagend.atl.ga.us (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sM1Rv-0006SmC; Wed, 14 Jun 95 19:02 EDT Message-Id: From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Subject: Re: news software - which to use ? To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 19:02:14 -0400 (EDT) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506141505.AAA27167@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jun 15, 95 00:35:17 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: 1063 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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