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In de.admin.news.misc, article <SPACE.92Aug22113823@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org>,
  space@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org (Lars Soltau) writes:
> >>>>> On 20 Aug 1992 16:07:42 GMT, cs@Germany.EU.net (Chris Schmidt) said:
> 
> > Rich Salz hat gerade die erste Version seiner neuen News-Software
> > freigegeben. Sie ist unter ~ftp/pub/news/inn auf ftp.Germany.EU.net
> > zu finden ...
> 
> Schoen schoen, bevor ich's mir runterziehe, bringt es auch was fuer Leute ganz
> ohne Internet-Anschluss, d.h. alles (auch rein) ueber UUCP? Es steht was von
> UUCP Support drin, aber es war nicht ersichtlich, ob das nur bedeutet, dass
> die News per UUCP an Downstream-Sites weiterverteilt werden koennen oder auch,
> dass News per UUCP empfangen werden koennen.

Aeh, da News grundsaetzlich bidirektional laufen, muss UUCP-Support wohl oder
uebel auch das Empfangen, d.h. "rnews", bedeuten.

[ Nein, ich habe jetzt keine Lust, den Kram zu uebersetzen. *

From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Subject: Re: Announcing the release of InterNetNews
Date: 22 Aug 1992 17:13:49 +0200
Message-ID: <175ljdINNb0u@smurf.smurf.sub.org>

In news.software.b, article <1992Aug21.141713.8635@drd.com>,
  mark@drd.com (Resident.Alien) writes:
> We currently have a year-old or so installation of C-News running
> as our news transport and are connected wholly via UUCP links.  Would
> there be any reason at all for a site like us to transit to INN?  I noted

To me, there are a few advantages to inn even if you're running a UUCP site,
which is what I am doing at smurf.sub.org.
The biggest is that posting an article is synchronous. This means that when
inews exits without an error message, you can be sure that the server has
received the article, written it to disk, and there is a record in the
history database.

This works even when, at the same time, one or two incoming uucp connections
are spewing rnews jobs at innd. If your uuxqt can run multiple jobs at the
same time, innd can receive them concurrently.

The INN batcher isn't too bad either.  ;-)

The INN expire lets you select whether to expire based on the date the
article was received or the date it was posted.

On the down side, the inn daemon needs somewhat more memory than C News.
(How much more is hard to say, as it depends on too many factors.)
This may or may not mean that you need a memory upgrade.

> the mention of UUCP in your note.  Are C-News and INN mutually exclusive
> choices or do they overlap?

They are mutually exclusive.

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