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From: lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Netnews for 3B2??
Message-ID: <1255@atha.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 20 Nov 89 00:40:02 GMT
References: <17@dynasys.UUCP>
Organization: Athabasca University
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In article <17@dynasys.UUCP> root@dynasys.UUCP (Super user) writes:
>I have a system that would like to connect to the net but does not have the
>time to compile the netnews software [ ... ]

Um, if you don't have 15 minutes to compile news, where are you
going to find time to READ news?!? Or administer it for that matter ...

The compile is the *easy* part. You still have to do all the site
specific stuff like build mailpaths, set up the sys file, and generate
an *up* *to* *date* active file (always fun :-) which takes a lot longer
than compiling the software.

-- 
Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
  {alberta,decwrl,lsuc}!atha!lyndon || lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA

                  The Connector is the Notwork.