Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 11:14:03 -0500 (CDT) From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: news software - which to use ? Message-ID: <9506141614.AA10133@sonic.nmti.com.nmti.com> In-Reply-To: <199506140247.MAA25978@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jun 14, 95 12:17:47 pm
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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. > You should use UUCP over TCP/IP to transport your news, and INN locally > to process it. I use a program called "slurp" to transport news over NNTP, because it gives me a local sys file... I don't have to bother my feed about changes to my subscription list. And it's receiver-driven so sceduling connections isn't a problem.
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