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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C news alpha release
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Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 16:01:24 EDT
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Some people have asked for a summary of what's good about C news.  Well,
basically it's smaller and much faster than B news.  The real speed
demon, rnews, receives and files articles at about 15 times the speed
of its 2.11 counterpart.  The code is a total rewrite, not a modification
of B news, which means it is generally simpler and cleaner.  (B news has
been growing and mutating for about 6 years now and the result is a bit
messy.)  Here and there are a few bits of added functionality:  expire
uses a control file to tell it which newsgroups expire when, the batcher
is much more flexible, and there is provision for separating newsgroup
names from distribution names in the sys file (which makes life easier
in certain tricky situations).
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"Mir" means "peace", as in           |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"the war is over; we've won".        | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry