Re: Satelite News Feeds

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From: Larry Snyder
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 1994 16:21

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sdw@lig.net (Stephen D. Williams) writes:

>Bruce M. Walker (bmw@isgtec.com) wrote:
>...
>: Then I must ask you, what on earth are *you* running for s/w?  We
>: accept pretty much a full feed from Pagesat, and we have one Linux PC
>: to suck from the modem and ungzip the batches, and a Silicon Graphics
>: 4D/85 running cnews.

>CNEWS!!!!!!  Why does this come up again, and again, and again...

>CNEWS is outdated.  It worked ok in its day, when it was a couple
>MB/day...  Upgrade to INN ....  There is no comparison.

Ahh, yes there is.  INN Is a memory hog.  INN is great for NNTP,
but if you batch for multiple UUCP sites, cnews is more flexible.

The next release of INN will have modifications that include better
support for UUCP feeds..

larry
-- 
Larry Snyder, System Adminstrator, GatorNet Internet Connectivity
Lake Mary (Orlando), Florida
larry@rn.com

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From: larry@rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: Satelite News Feeds
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Organization: GatorNet, providing UUCP access to the internet!
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