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Re: What is the advantage of INN over CNews?

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From: Matthias Urlichs
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:08
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In news.software.b, article <BzMw3p.2AK@techbook.com>,
  jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) writes:
> 
> It's 3 years later and I'm running the Peformance Release.  I've got
> three times as many groups as I did then, and I'd bet the volume in each
> group is close to triple that of 3 years ago.  expire runs pretty nicely,
> but every so often I have to run "mkhistory" and that's a nightmare.  
> INN's "makehistory" runs about 8 times faster.  INN integrates the

It also has an update mode -- the rest of your news system can run as always
while makehistory mangles every article and then feeds any missing history
lines into INN. (And no, I don't like that feature _just_ because I wrote
the patch for it, back when INN was in beta. ;-)

> I'm convinced that aliens "walk" among us.  Nobody could have real jobs,
> plus write the kind of code that Geoff does or post as many well-written 
> messages as Henry does ...
> 
I suspect they have a time machine hidden in their basement somewhere,
to grab the 36-hour days the rest of us only dream about.

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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
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Subject: Re: What is the advantage of INN over CNews?
Date: 22 Dec 1992 18:08:57 +0100
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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