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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie Near Death - Needs Help!
Date: 8 Jan 1996 12:53:09 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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le@put.com (Louis Epstein) writes:

> : Also:  Avoid CNews.  Inn is much more advanced.

> As I've noted,my news feed provider tells me CNews gives better
> performance per resources than INN.

This is not necessarily true.  The only difference is that INN runs
all the time as a daemon, while CNews is started by inetd.  This means
that INN eats up some swap space while being unused.  I can tolerate
this for me.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)