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From: gerrit@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Gerrit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Anybody ported netnews?
Message-ID: <3791@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 30 Aug 89 16:50:37 GMT
References: <1133@adobe.UUCP>
Reply-To: gerrit@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Gerrit)
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In article <1133@adobe.UUCP> greid@adobe.COM (Glenn Reid) writes:
>
>Before I go off and try to get a news feed up and running,
>has anybody done this already, and is it easy and/or worth
>the effort?  ["news", as in rnews, rn, /usr/spool/news, and
>stuff like that, not "NeWS"].

I've brought up rrn and the nntp version of inews with no memorable
problems.  There weren't any compilation problems that couldn't be
fixed with a "-bsd" passed to cc.  No unusual problems to report on
NNTP (other than the annoying 0.9 TCP/IP bug which is gone in 1.0).

gerrit