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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!remote!ruth!rat
- From: rat@ruth.UUCP (David Douthitt)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Offline Readers
- Message-ID: <9J6TwB1w165w@ruth.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 22:41:43 CST
- References: <921228.020445.1P0.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Organization: Network XXIII - +1 608 222 9253
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- russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:
-
- | uucp+rnews:
-
- | I've seen people claim that this approach _requires_ frequent polling to
- | prevent filling up the feed's disk. it'd be easy enough to have a program
- | wander through each spool/* directory, looking for `rnews' batches older
- | than `n' days and turfing them when space got tight.
-
- Such a program already exists: Uuclean. I use it here - it is a clone
- of the UNIX uucp uuclean program...
-
- | Ease of installation
- |
- | QWK:
-
- This is about the only thing QWK has going for it...
-
- | Ease of use
- |
- | QWK:
-
- (and this...)
-
- QWK format is only good for people who want no-brainer install/operation and
- don't have the guts to tackle Waffle install. Unfortunately, that covers
- about 99% of the American public and 70% of the new connections to Usenet.
-
- The QWK format is very bad, and any format has to be shoehorned into it.
-
- I try to recommend Waffle and/or Fidonet setups, but I have at least one
- user who INSISTS on using SLiMeR....
-
-
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