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Article #4700Re: What is the advantage of INN over CNews?
From: Matthias Urlichs
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:08
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. -- Now this is going to be your first day on a strange new planet, so I want you all wrapped up snug and warm, and no playing with any naughty bug-eyed monsters. -- Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de /(o\ Humboldtstrasse 7 -- 7500 Karlsruhe 1 -- Germany -- +49-721-9612521 \o)/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!ira.uka.de!smurf.sub.org!news From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: What is the advantage of INN over CNews? Date: 22 Dec 1992 18:08:57 +0100 Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG Lines: 27 Message-ID: <1h7i39INN4md@smurf.sub.org> References: <1gofc3INNdb@milk.Warren.MENTORG.COM> <1992Dec17.191731.10567@fasttech.com> <BzMw3p.2AK@techbook.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1