Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 21:24:10 EST From: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net> To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: news software - which to use ? Message-ID: <199506150124.VAA14114@sentinel.synapse.net>
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Addressed to: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr
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** Reply to note from roberto@blaise.ibp.fr 06/14/95 11:31pm +0200
> > Cnews is the tool of choice if you do much UUCP. INN treats UUCP like a poor
> > relation.
>
> My feed has been UUCP based for two years and I don't see the "poor relation"
> you're describing. The default sendbatch is not very clever but the perl version
> (sendbatches) from C. Wolfhugel is pretty good. We are several UUCP sites here
> in France almost eveyone of them is using INN.
I handle 40 UUCP feeds off my INN server (using sendbatches.pl). I don't think
that is an insignificant number and configuring INN for UUCP is extremely easy. In
fact, setting up INN is pretty easy too. On the other hand, I got terribly lost
trying to set up Cnews for NNTP a couple years ago when I was building the system
from scratch. In my not so humble opinion, INN is the way to go no matter what you
are doing with your system, be it NNTP or UUCP. The only requirement is more RAM
than Cnews needs; our server is currently taking up 20 MB RAM, but on average is
using only 3-4% CPU time on a DX2-66 running BSD/OS 2.0. If you have the RAM to
keep yourself out of swap, INN is the way to go.
Evan
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