Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 16:26:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.GUN.de> To: frank@exit.com (Frank Mayhar) Cc: peter@nmti.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: news software - which to use ? Message-ID: <199506151426.QAA03309@knobel.GUN.de> In-Reply-To: <199506141744.KAA11234@exit.com> from "Frank Mayhar" at Jun 14, 95 10:44:39 am
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> > > cnews and nntp are stagnant. INN is _the_ news tool of choice.
> > Cnews is the tool of choice if you do much UUCP. INN treats UUCP like a poor
> > relation.
>
> INN with UUCP has worked just fine for me for months.
For me too, nearly for years under Slowaris 2.4, FreeBSD and Linux.
> True, INN is a swap
> hog and C News would be lighter, but,
But if someone is posting something, then there are so many filter
programs * mostly shell scripts * started, that I think, it's better
to offer some MB swap to a friendly sleeping innd process, that
consumes active memory, only if he is running and doesn't fire up
many many shell and other scripts....
> like many, I find INN much easier to
> administer.
Yes ! news.daily once a time !
> I honestly don't see much to choose between them, unless one is running in
> a swap-poor environment (in which case C News is really the only alternative).
> Swap is cheap, though, like the man said.
Poor swap ... bad luck ... poor system ... I recommend inn.
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