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In <1ghab1INNcko@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> smrttadm@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Jeffrey Smartt) writes:
>can someone please tell me the advantages of INN over Cnews?
They are targeted for different environments, although both systems seem
to work fairly well outside of their targets.  Several people run INN on
UUCP-only machines.

INN is designed for hosts on the Internet with a fair amount of memory and
multiple fast incoming NNTP feeds.  It's a full Usenet system, but most
traffic is NNTP.  (E.g., rnews unpacks a batch and sends it to the server
via NNTP.)  If you do NNTP, you'll find it easier to maintain the one
single system, rather than two.  INN is also fast, if you care about
that.  Posting is synchronous -- when inews returns, the article has been
written to disk and queued for forwarding.  INN puts a low, constant, load
on your machine.

>Is the inews program in INN written in 'C' rather than 'sh'?
Yes it is written in C, but is a mistake to let that be a concern of yours.
	/r$