Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!telly!problem!nyama!jad
From: jad@nyama.UUCP
Subject: Re: Problems with expire in CNews
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.035505.11328@nyama.uucp>
Sender: jad@nyama.uucp (Jose A. Dias)
Reply-To: jad@nyama.UUCP (Jose A. Dias)
Organization: Nyama Nyama Inc.
References: <1991Apr24.180649.14798@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Apr25.001832.19898@s1.msi.umn.edu> <1991Apr25.161229.18843@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1991 03:55:05 GMT

In <1991Apr25.161229.18843@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, schwager@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Michael Schwager) writes:
>
>In a nutshell: News is big, bad, and ugly.  I would not wish upon my worst
>enemy that they be forced to bring it up from scratch.
Ah, excuse me?  A friend of mine and I got c-news and rn intalled, receiving
and reading news in 3 hours.  And that included a coffee break!

C-news is big, but it's not bad and not ugly.  I find the use of shell
for most of simple use to be an advantage.  What you do need to do is
answer each and every question in conf/build *very carefully* or else.
Chances are the defaults are ok, but if not then don't bother "fixing"
doit.bin and friends: start over, it will make you happier in the end.

This is not meant as a flame, on the contraire.  You have to be carefull
because c-news assumes you know what you're doing:-)

>-Mike Schwager                             | Machine: Amiga 500, 3 MB RAM/30 HD
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Jose Dias		jad@nyama.UUCP		 Who me? I didn't say anything!
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Jose Dias		jad@nyama.UUCP		 Who me? I didn't say anything!