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From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Subject: Re: TheNews version 2.02 available for FTP
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References: <1991Jun5.223914.28149@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 5 Jun 91 23:22:52 GMT
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In article <1991Jun5.223914.28149@neon.Stanford.EDU> 
           philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
> In article <1991Jun5.150334.29427@guinness.idbsu.edu>,  
bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu (Bruce Carter) writes:
> |> Thanks for making this available, and thanks to Bill for writing it!  I'm
> |> hoping that if the bug in adding/deleting groups is fixed that I can get 
> |> our administration to site license this package.
>
> I checked it out, and am not impressed. Opening a session is very
> slow if you have a lot of groups on your server, and crashed horribly
> when trying to convert my unix .newsrc file (which is an advertized
> feature in the manual). Also, setup/preferences info appears to
> be stored in the application. Among other things, this results in
> breaking the application if it crashes.
> 
> Perhaps some of this is because of System 7, but I had
> similar problems with an earlier version running on 6.0.7.

Hmmm, our NNTP server carries something like 1200 newsgroups, and I haven't had  
version 2.02 crash yet.  I did have problems with the previous version (both  
under system 7 and system 6), but the newer version seems much more stable.   
Maybe I'm not using it as much as I used to (that is certainly possible).
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Garance Alistair Drosehn   = gad@rpi.edu  or  gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer                       (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;  Troy NY  USA