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- Path: rahul.net!a2i!wolf359!Eric
- From: Eric@wolf359.exile.org (Eric Edwards)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best way to read News??
- Message-ID: <McnTx*f52@wolf359.exile.org>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 06:31:12 GMT
- References: <4bnkp4$gvo@grissom.powerup.com.au> <meteor-3012950840590001@10.0.2.15>
- <Wz1Tx*a42@wolf359.exile.org> <19960102.781C110.FE2E@ragtime.vnet.net>
- Organization: Engineers in Exile
- X-Newsreader: Arn V1.03a
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- In article <19960102.781C110.FE2E@ragtime.vnet.net>, John Kelly writes:
-
- >
- > Eric@wolf359.exile.org (Eric Edwards) writes:
- >
- > >> "More robust" ? ... heh. Installing some lame UUCP system on my Amiga
- > >> is NOT my idea of a good time, AND is not included in MOST PEOPLE's
- > >> SLIP/PPP access .. NNTP is.
- >
- > > Yes, it is more robust. It has had many years of testing by lots and lots
- > > of people. Sure, it's complicated to set up. But so is hacking nntp for
- > > the same function. Just about everything that can go wrong with a UUCP
- > > setup can go wrong with a dialup nntp setup. The difference is that the
- > > former is well defined and mostly debugged. The later is a custom hack.
- >
- > Oooo, you make me feel so diiiiirty. Keep talking, big boy!
- >
- > This "custom hack" is used by almost every casual user of the Net .. millions
- > of people; I think we can say that it's been "tested", unless you think you
- > can come up with some other exaggeration to make your feeble, baseless point.
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- The casual user runs an nntp based news reader to poll for messages while
- connected to his/her ISP. Very few people set up cron tabs to call up
- their ISP and deliver news to a local spool. The former is very simple,
- essentially "canned". The later is not.
-
- And just for the record, I have done the custom hack method, several*
- mutations actually. It works ok if that's all you have but it is always a
- work in progress and never runs as smoothly as a properly configured UUCP
- system.
-
- *You don't want to *know* how my first newsfeed worked.
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