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Help,

I really need some info on the following subject yesterday!

At the moment we are connected to our newsfeed via a serial line. We
receive incoming messages via email in compressed batches. This has worked
fine for us.

However, in the near future we are going to be connected to the internet
directly. Someone suggested me to use NNTP for the transmission of articles
as soon as we are on the internet.

General info: We have installed c-news on our server. The news-directories
	      are NFS-mounted on the clients. Our users read their news
	      with 'rn' and 'nn'.

Because I don't know very much about NNTP, I have the following questions:

1) What are the main advantages of a NNTP-feed above an email-feed? What
    are the disadvantages?

2) Is NNTP reliable?

3) I am told that we can read news from our news-feed directly using NNTP
    without storing the articles locally. Is this true? Does this mean that
    we don't need our news-server anymore?

4) Does anyone know where to get good documentation on NNTP?

5) Are there other recommended strategies (besides email and NNTP)
    which we could/should use to send and receive news? What about using
    uux?

Any help (preferably email) will be highly appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Johan Thole.

P.S. of course I will summarize.
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