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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: Thu, 15-Oct-87 13:12:03 EDT
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I've received several inquiries about NNTP support in C news, so I suppose
I should answer that one publicly...

1. There is no fundamental incompatibility.

2. I don't think Geoff was quite finished with putting the necessary hooks
	in, so the alpha release may not support it "right out of the box".

3. C news's speed advantage will be reduced due to NNTP's one-article-at-a-
	time processing; although batching was motivated by reducing phone
	transmission time, it also does wonders for processing speed if
	the software is prepared to exploit it, which C news is.

Oh yes, also, people have asked about news readers.  C news should be 100%
compatible with existing news readers, and indeed we have neither the desire
nor the energy to write our own.  Rn is known to work with it and the others
shouldn't have any serious problem.
-- 
"Mir" means "peace", as in           |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"the war is over; we've won".        | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry