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From: lwv27@CAS.BITNET
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Where to start?
Message-ID: <9008161603.AA28047@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 16 Aug 90 16:06:00 GMT
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If a site was going to try to bring up a fresh new news installation,
BUT they are currently running a very old version of B News (version
x.y.z) AND it isnt quite working right anyways... where should they
start?

If a site just blows away the active and history files, then users will
get bent all out of shape.  If they dont, will things not get pretty
messed up?

Some other data points:

This is a MicroVax running Ultrix 2.2 right now.  The news is then
NNTP'd on a LAN which is restricted to a few local ether segments.

Which News software - B, C, or 3.0, would be best to run on a MicroVax
with approx. 300 or more NNTP users running against it?

It currently gets batches in over a modem, but Ethernet delivery
is likely to appear in the future.
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