Re: Help: cnews under Linux

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From: John Henders
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 00:00

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In <57fmg1$h98@cynic.portal.ca> cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:

>Umm...just because you haven't experienced these problems doesn't
>mean they don't exist. There's a big difference between 5MB/day
>through UUCP and a gigabyte per day through NNTP. :-)

Indeed there is. C-news does not scale well. The only large site I know
running c-news has done major modifications to it to get it to work.
Stock c-news with nntp 1.5 doesn't even allow for looking up articles in
the history file before accepting them, so duplicate feeds are a
complete lose.

-- 
John Henders  - System Administrator - Mindlink!/Wimsey

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