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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Fetching msgs by their IDs
Summary: In defense of B News
Message-ID: <174@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 3 Dec 89 00:15:18 GMT
References: <566@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <5290@omepd.UUCP> <172@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <25781205.734E@rpi.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <25781205.734E@rpi.edu> tale@cs.rpi.edu (Dave Lawrence) writes:
>Note that C News has "newshist" in $NEWSBIN/maint.  It will even work
>over NFS mounted file systems (how come your's doesn't?)

Simple.  We don't export /usr/lib/news, and don't keep history on
the spool partition.  C News can't claim any superiority here, it
just needs more debugging tools.  :-)  Given that I have NNTP, I'd
rather use that than have to know how history is actually maintained.

					-=EPS=-