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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!le From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: Newbie Near Death - Needs Help! X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] X-Nntp-Posting-User: (Unauthenticated) Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <DKw0Bw.KL5@news2.new-york.net> References: <4cmisu$ja8@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> <4cmtkh$j66@agate.berkeley.edu> <DKtpsv.7tI@news2.new-york.net> <4cr43l$pl@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 00:07:08 GMT Lines: 16 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : 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. (this is supposedly based on case-study reactions to news feeds from new-york.net...YMMV).