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In article <1ghab1INNcko@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> smrttadm@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Jeffrey Smartt) writes:
>G'day,
>
>can someone please tell me the advantages of INN over Cnews?  Is the
>inews program in INN written in 'C' rather than 'sh'?
>

I've just started to use INN (as a replacement for Cnews) myself,
and my first impressions is that in general INN has a much cleaner
design. Cnews is a mix of shell-script and binaries located "all over
the file-system", where INN is a more typical client/server design,
with a deamon process running all the time. If you both want news over
UUCP and NNTP, I think INN has a major advantage over Cnews, since you
get support for both in one package. I also find INN easier to install
one SVR3 systems, if you require NNTP.

To sum up my own experiences:

  - support for both UUCP and NNTP in one package
  - improved logging
  - cleaner design
  - easy to install (more complicated config files though !)
  - more configuration options for complex installations
  - good (better ?) performance (haven't tested this !)

  -- Arne

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