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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (The Phantom)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: List of Moderators
Message-ID: <2401@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 04:05:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 26 04:05:16 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Feb-85 10:21:24 EST
References: <12028@gatech.UUCP> <248@log-hb.UUCP> <329@usl.UUCP>
Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (The Phantom)
Organization: The Paradise
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Summary: 

In article <329@usl.UUCP> jih@usl.UUCP (Juha I. Heinanen) writes:
>Forget swithing to 2.10.2 since based on the amount of bug reports I
>have seen on the net it seems like a nightmare of a news administrator.
>Wait for something that is proven to be more robust.  I have heard
>rumors about 2.10.3 which would be the official patched version of
>2.10.2.

huh-- 2.10.2 is the rock of gibraltar compared to previous versions. It is
the FIRST news system I've run that goes in without hacking, and that I
don't have to spend weekends tweaking and fixing-- I'm running the
distribution with minimal changes, and I feel no need to go in and work on
it. It simply doesn't fail. I wish I could say the same for 2.10.1, but
that code stunk. People who don't upgrade do so out of laziness-- I've put
2.10.2 on about half a dozen sites now, using the 'nsc' distribution as a
template, and I can get a full system installed and operational the first
time in under two hours. I've yet to see if break. I've yet to see it burp.
I've yet to see if flake. 

2.10.3 still isn't in beta test. Upgrading from 2.10.2 to 2.10.3 ought to
be trivial, so waiting simply makes your life and those of others on the
net worse. It really IS worth upgrading. 

chuq
-- 
From behind the eight ball:                       Chuq Von Rospach
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