Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C NEWS and 3.0 NEWS
Message-ID: <1989Feb21.155924.5989@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <13818@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 15:59:24 GMT

In article <13818@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson) writes:
>Word on the net is that 3.0 Netnews may be out shortly and C News may
>also be out soon.  The question I have is what are the advantages
>of each?

To sum up very briefly, both are cleaner re-implementations; C News is
almost certainly ahead on performance and simplicity, 3.0 News on being a
complete and self-sufficient package (C News is just the transport and
storage subsystems) that does everything you could want (C News favors
simplicity over features).

>... The bottom line
>is "Will C News and/or 3.0 Netnews speed up inews/rnews and expire?"
>and if so how much? ...

Yes, both will.  I don't have performance numbers for 3.0, but C News
speeds up processing of incoming news by a factor of 20-30 (we haven't
run timings lately).  Expire is also substantially faster.
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