From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 15 07:33:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA21224 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 07:33:39 -0700 Received: from nanolon.gun.de (nanolon.gun.de [192.109.159.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA21211 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 07:33:36 -0700 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by nanolon.gun.de (8.6.8.1/8.6.6) with UUCP id QAA29281; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 16:31:53 +0200 Received: (from andreas@localhost) by knobel.GUN.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id QAA03309 Thu, 15 Jun 1995 16:26:15 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm Message-Id: <199506151426.QAA03309@knobel.GUN.de> Subject: Re: news software - which to use ? To: frank@exit.com (Frank Mayhar) Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 16:26:14 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: peter@nmti.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199506141744.KAA11234@exit.com> from "Frank Mayhar" at Jun 14, 95 10:44:39 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP2] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1300 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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. -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - akl@wup.de - *** apsfilter - irgendwie clever *** ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/Linux/local/packs/APSfilter/aps-49...:-)