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From: toor@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (Peppermint Lucy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: ['486 netbsd-0.9] cnews: where, what, how?
Date: 17 Oct 1993 13:43:20 GMT
Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni-Mannheim
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Message-ID: <29ri5o$p1n@darum.uni-mannheim.de>
References: <fenCEyECo.Kv@netcom.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de
Keywords: cnews, netbsd

In article <fenCEyECo.Kv@netcom.com>, Fen Labalme <fen@netcom.com> wrote:
>I want to get news running on my '486 running netbsd-0.9 box.
>What else do I need (does cnews distribution include nntp, etc.)?
Due to you mentioning nntp, I think you probably have a nice nntp
server just near you in which case, you might as well use nntp-clients
instead of wasting a lot of space on your Harddisk (unless you have 
a terrible network-connection or want to run over phone lines it not
even much of a speed increase due to the time spent unpacking the 
articles).

Try getting tin or trn, both come with nntp-support and both compile
fairly much out of the package, and are much less trouble to set up
and keep running than cnews (if you really go for locally hoarding of
news articles, there is a faster package, I forget the name which has
been patched for NetBSD (and others) a while back).
Cheers
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