From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 20 13: 0: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F6614C9B for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:57:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA18467; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:56:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 15:56:03 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: David Fuchs Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INN vs. DNews In-Reply-To: <005401bf6387$01174420$0201a8c0@uniserve.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG INN tends to need MMAP to work - it also requires a lot of ram if you have a full feed etc. We had to leave it for dnews for those and other reasons. On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, David Fuchs wrote: > Hey everyone, I've been having a lot of fun with this news stuff lately. I started with Cnews & NNTP, and now I've removed all that crap and installed INN. A friend of mine has recently installed Dnews... should I be using that instead? What are the pros and cons? I must say I'm quite pleased with INN, it does everything I want. > > At the very least maybe someone could give me reason to argue with my friend. :) hahaha j/k... > > -David Fuchs > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message