From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 14 10:58:53 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA17305 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 10:58:53 -0700 Received: from kaiwan.kaiwan.com (4@kaiwan.kaiwan.com [198.178.203.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA17296 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 10:58:50 -0700 Received: from exit.com (uucp@localhost) by kaiwan.kaiwan.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id KAA00774; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 10:57:21 -0700 *** KAIWAN Internet Access *** Received: (from frank@localhost) by exit.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id KAA11234; Wed, 14 Jun 1995 10:44:39 -0700 From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <199506141744.KAA11234@exit.com> Subject: Re: news software - which to use ? To: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 10:44:39 -0700 (PDT) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9506141614.AA10133@sonic.nmti.com.nmti.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Jun 14, 95 11:14:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23beta2] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 746 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. INN with UUCP has worked just fine for me for months. True, INN is a swap hog and C News would be lighter, but, like many, I find INN much easier to administer. I originally picked it because I had been running it for a former employer, was familiar with it, and saw no particular reason to go back to C News (which I've also run, though not for a while). I honestly don't see much to choose between them, unless one is running in a swap-poor environment (in which case C News is really the only alternative). Swap is cheap, though, like the man said. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com