From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 15 01:10:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA29458 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 01:10:02 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA29444 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 01:09:40 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA03601; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 09:51:33 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA13539 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 09:51:32 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA00337 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 09:34:47 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506150734.JAA00337@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: news software - which to use ? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 09:34:46 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: from "Jan Isley" at Jun 14, 95 07:02:14 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 667 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jan Isley wrote: > > > 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. :) I can confirm that configuring INN is just the only difficulty. Once it's running, it's the piece of software that requires the least maintenance efforts i've ever seen (i.e., just read the daily mails, unless something's going wrong, e.g. a disk runs out of space). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)