Path: utzoo!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!think!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!ambar From: ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Which should I use? B or C? Message-ID: Date: 12 Nov 89 23:25:03 GMT References: <1989Nov6.195132.4345@millipore.uucp> <1572@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1989Nov8.035748.24911@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <1989Nov9.102613.16627@eda.com> <6906@ficc.uu.net> <1989Nov12.010539.7360@utzoo.uucp> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: Madhouse International Technologies Lines: 25 In-reply-to: henry@utzoo.uucp's message of 12 Nov 89 01:05:39 GMT From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Date: 12 Nov 89 01:05:39 GMT In article <6906@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >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. Can you elaborate on this? We've got pretty good support for NFSed multi- machine setups, since one of our development systems (Geoff's) is such. It's also pretty easy to run a NNTP-based system, iff you understand (ie, are already running) NNTP. (Neither C News nor NNTP is documented with the novice news admin in mind.) In another posting, Rick Adams points out that the availability of O'Reilly's _Mananging UUCP and Usenet_ is a point in B News' favor. I should point out that the eighth edition (which should be available before the new year) will cover both B News 2.11 and C News. (Claimer: of course I'm biased, I did the rewrite :-) AMBAR ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu {mit-eddie,uunet}!bloom-beacon!ambar