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From: dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Is C-News reliable?  Its certainly faster...
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.014403.1255@coplex.uucp>
Date: 24 Jan 91 01:44:03 GMT
Organization: Copper Electronics, Inc.
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   I have just installed C-News at our site, and am very impressed
with the speed of unbatching and versatility.  

   However, I am curious, do people generally regard C-News (as of the
Dec-15th patch) as being completely reliable for news transmission?
We have several sites who consider reliability as a number one factor,
and I was curious of other peoples opinion.

   Installation was fairly straightforward, except for some problems
with permissions conflicts with the build script.  But it concerns me
that there are so many shell scripts used instead of binaries.  Scripts
are nice, but there are some things (ala postnews) that seem a little
too complex for script use.

   Anyone had any problems with the scripts?  Also, I like the methods
of checking free space, but I was curious how well recovery is taken
care of when space becomes too low (unbatching, etc).

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dean@coplex.UUCP   Dean A. Brooks
                   Copper Electronics, Inc.
                   Louisville, Ky
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