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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.admin
Subject: Re: Scary Thought ...
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Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 21:22:18 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  4 21:22:18 1987
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Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
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Summary: not really

There's a lot more to Usenet than UUCP.  I don't know about Lauren's
package, but uuslave is a VERY simpleminded UUCP file transfer hack.
To get news really running you'd need to port inews/rnews, expire,
readnews or rn or vn or vnews, etc.  Remember also that since MS-DOS
is a primitive single-tasking OS, the machine would be completely tied
up while news was arriving or leaving.  Given total USENET volume,
you'd have to devote almost all the waking hours of a PC to keep up
(my PC, running UNIX, is on the phone perhaps 10 hours a day, and we
only get about half the newsgroups).

Somehow I don't think the thought of PCs with UUCP is all that scary...
-- 
Larry Campbell                                The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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