From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Dec 19 11:19:43 2000 From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 11:19:41 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.calweb.com (mail.calweb.com [209.210.251.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F6437B402 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:19:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from outel.org (gatekeeper.calweb.com [209.210.251.61]) by mail.calweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA99484; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:18:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A3FB528.3EB42BDC@outel.org> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:21:12 -0800 From: "Joel M. Baldwin" Organization: Calweb Internet Services Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Samplonius Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Typhoon? (was: newsgroup server recommendation) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Disk drive space is cheaper than CPU power. The stuff that takes up most of the space on your spool won't compress much anyway. Tom Samplonius wrote: > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message