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russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:

| uucp+rnews:

|   I've seen people claim that this approach _requires_ frequent polling to
|   prevent filling up the feed's disk.  it'd be easy enough to have a program
|   wander through each spool/* directory, looking for `rnews' batches older
|   than `n' days and turfing them when space got tight.

Such a program already exists: Uuclean.  I use it here - it is a clone
of the UNIX uucp uuclean program...

| Ease of installation
| 
| QWK:

This is about the only thing QWK has going for it...

| Ease of use
| 
| QWK:

(and this...)

QWK format is only good for people who want no-brainer install/operation and
don't have the guts to tackle Waffle install.  Unfortunately, that covers
about 99% of the American public and 70% of the new connections to Usenet.

The QWK format is very bad, and any format has to be shoehorned into it.

I try to recommend Waffle and/or Fidonet setups, but I have at least one
user who INSISTS on using SLiMeR....


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