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Article #2415Re: Passing on unwanted groups
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 1990 03:20
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 1990 03:20
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In article <1990Aug24.204636.8619@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: > In article <3ND5KOC@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > >It did a better job than C news. Really. C news is a far superior product > >once you get it installed, but it's a pain to install and there are all > >sorts of administration gotchas... > Opinions vary on this. We've had no shortage of "went in fine, no problems" Probably from BSD sites. System V/386 requires hacking the free space scripts. And of course our Xenix System III/286 nodes were pure hell. BNews was easier to handle, but much slower and buggier. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups Message-ID: <5JG5B9A@ggpc2.ferranti.com> Date: 26 Aug 90 03:20:04 GMT References: <1990Aug15.164651.26664@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug21.161506.21784@zoo.toronto.edu> <3ND5KOC@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Aug24.204636.8619@zoo.toronto.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 11