From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Dec 19 9:56:29 2000 From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 09:56:27 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ACCC37B400 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:56:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 148QJC-0004WQ-00; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:12:14 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:12:08 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Typhoon? (was: newsgroup server recommendation) In-Reply-To: <76254.977209050@verdi.nethelp.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > Has Highwind Software (now bCandid) dropped support for FreeBSD? They > > make great news software (see www.highwind.com). The used to have a beta > > of Typhoon for FreeBSD available for downnload, but no longer. Various > > developers at @highwind.com also used to participate on the lists. > > Yes, they have. Supposedly because FreeBSD's thread system isn't good > enough. As a result of this, we're moving away from Typhoon to an all- > Diablo solution. > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no Yes, but as far as I can tell, Diablo doesn't support article compression. In fact, as far as I know, only the Typhoon family supports spool compression. I want to use article compression to extend my spool space a bit. Of course I'm hoping that a dual 1ghz machine with a GB of RAM can actually compress and uncompress that much data each day. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message