From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 14 18:24:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA13878 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 18:24:27 -0700 Received: from sentinel.synapse.net (sentinel.synapse.net [192.197.166.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA13866 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 18:24:23 -0700 Received: from windchime-01.synapse.net (windchime-01.synapse.net [199.84.52.253]) by sentinel.synapse.net (8.7.Beta.4/8.7.Beta.3) with SMTP id VAA14114; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 21:24:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Evan Champion Message-Id: <199506150124.VAA14114@sentinel.synapse.net> X-Authentication-Warning: sentinel.synapse.net: Host windchime-01.synapse.net [199.84.52.253] didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: Post Road Mailer (Green Edition Ver 1.00) To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 21:24:10 EST Reply-To: Evan Champion Subject: Re: news software - which to use ? Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Addressed to: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr hackers@freefall.cdrom.com ** 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 -- Evan Champion evanc@synapse.net * Come visit our WWW Server at: Director, Internet Systems * Synapse Internet *