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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: news software - which to use ?
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 11:14:03 -0500 (CDT)
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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.