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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
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 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
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