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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Which should I use? B or C?
Message-ID: <6906@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 10 Nov 89 14:43:49 GMT
References: <1989Nov6.195132.4345@millipore.uucp> <1572@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1989Nov8.035748.24911@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <1989Nov9.102613.16627@eda.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1989Nov9.102613.16627@eda.com> jim@eda.com (Jim Budler) writes:
> *Everything* you do with
> addgroup or delgroup is by definition *local*. If you are a wizard
> and want to do something more you have to build the RFC compliant
> file containing the appropriate headers and information and feed it
> to 'inews -h'.

Bletch.

> Elegant: regular stuff is provided for, wizard stuff
> requires wizard preparation. Unlike B-news where all operations
> were wizard operations.

Oh, fiddlesticks. What's so wizard about "inews [-d dist] -C newsgroup"?
We create organisational-level groups all the time, with no wizard
preparations.

I'll eventually go to cnews, after it's gone a while without patches. But
I'll have to say it doesn't look very convenient at all for anything but
a plain-jane single-machine setup.
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