Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!blake!ndsuvax!nctingue From: nctingue@ndsuvax.UUCP (Mark Tinguely) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Cnews is not for me Message-ID: <2828@ndsuvax.UUCP> Date: 12 Aug 89 05:37:46 GMT Reply-To: nctingue@ndsuvax.UUCP (Mark Tinguely) Distribution: usa Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 26 Maybe, I had too high of expectations for Cnews, or possible Cnews is designed for batching systems (and we run as an nntp only site). In any way you look at it Cnews is NOT for us. An article must first run though a script file (inews) which immediately calls another script file (which goes through all kinds of space worries -- by our indications a typcal news article is 2K bytes long, does the disk free have to occur on every file? how about doing this once an hour or so!). The saga continues in an executable, which sets some things up and call yet another script that is now prepared to do something useful. When Cnews is working on some incoming news our system goes to hell. Yes, I know I will be flamed by the "Cnews-ers", so I will only breifly mention that the `readnews, `checknews', and `postnews' were so poor, that they were the first files to go. Now I am spending a few hours of the week-end to correct the damage of a week with Cnews. ps. I hated NN also, but that is another tale. -- Mark Tinguely North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105 UUCP: ...!uunet!ndsuvax!nctingue BITNET: nctingue@ndsuvax.bitnet INTERNET: nctingue@plains.NoDak.edu