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Date:      Fri, 8 Aug 1997 11:29:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Robert Clark <ROBERTC@PII.COM>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Do the nntp & inn ports serve a similar function?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970808112833.2056F-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <s2fb6a17.007@pii.com>

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On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Robert Clark wrote:

> 
> I plan to setup a news server, primarily to make comp.os. available to
> people here at work. (Perhaps 25 people reading from / posting to it.)
> 
> I've installed nntp-1.5.11.5, and now I wonder if I made the right choice.
> 
> Does inn-1.5.1 and nntp-1.5.11.5 serve a similar function?

I believe so.  inn seems to be the news server of choice nowadays, not to
slight nntp.  If you have nntp working then I'd run with it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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