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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups
Message-ID: <5JG5B9A@ggpc2.ferranti.com>
Date: 26 Aug 90 03:20:04 GMT
References: <1990Aug15.164651.26664@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug21.161506.21784@zoo.toronto.edu> <3ND5KOC@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Aug24.204636.8619@zoo.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1990Aug24.204636.8619@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
> In article <3ND5KOC@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >It did a better job than C news. Really. C news is a far superior product
> >once you get it installed, but it's a pain to install and there are all
> >sorts of administration gotchas...

> Opinions vary on this.  We've had no shortage of "went in fine, no problems"

Probably from BSD sites. System V/386 requires hacking the free space scripts.
And of course our Xenix System III/286 nodes were pure hell. BNews was easier
to handle, but much slower and buggier.
-- 
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