Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Where to start?
Message-ID: <1990Aug17.155501.1138@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <9008161603.AA28047@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 15:55:01 GMT

In article <9008161603.AA28047@jade.berkeley.edu> lwv27@CAS.BITNET writes:
>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?

You don't want to blow away active; there is information there that
is difficult to recover.  You may want to rebuild the history file
from scratch to make sure it's right.

>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?

C News definitely takes the prize on performance, but it will need some
getting used to, as it is not sysadmin-compatible with B News.  3.0 is
not a realistic competitor for production use at the moment, as it's still
under development.  (It's not sysadmin-compatible either, and I believe
it has incompatibilities at the reader interface too, which C News does
not.)
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