Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: The Joys of C news Keywords: C news, noise Message-ID: Date: 26 Aug 90 14:15:03 GMT References: <1990Aug21.161506.21784@zoo.toronto.edu> <3ND5KOC@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Aug24.204636.8619@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug26.074604.10583@amd.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 13 In article <1990Aug26.074604.10583@amd.com> cdr@brahms.amd.com (Carl Rigney) writes: > I suspect most of the problems Peter has would go away if he just got into > the habit of doing everything as news, not root. Works for me! No, most of my problems would go away if I had some less exotic UNIX systems. Henry knows that, we've had enough E-mail discussions about the problems with news on old System III/286 boxes. In fact that was why I went to C news in the first place, after Henry pointed out that it ran in small model (at least it ran on the PDP-11). Still, there are things that could be done in the installation and admin scripts that would make things a lot easier. Henry sees them as coddling the user. I see them as cheap (and obvious) enhancements. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com