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- From: vds7789@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com (Vincent D. Skahan)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Any reommendations for MS-DOS uucp?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.034259.1758@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 03:42:59 GMT
- References: <kevinf.716061977@infmx> <716093784snx@witness.hernix.org> <1992Sep11.135811.10493@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com> <1992Sep11.230848.28024@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov>
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- thigpen@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Keith Thigpen) writes:
-
- >One of the things that I am looking for in a UUCP package is the ability to
- >access both mail AND news. Looks like FSUUCP includes all that with the
- >standard distribution.
-
- >How do you incorporated that with UUPC? James Sizemore says that he uses SNEWS,
- >but after a quick read (ok, it's late Friday afternoon and I'm ready to go
- >home-- I don't have TIME for a long read) of the SNEWS docs it appears that
- >SNEW is targeting MUSH. Can it be easily integrated with UUPC?
-
- >Has anyone tested them both? I'd like some information on their comparative
- >strengths and weaknesses.
-
- >Thanks in advance, guys.
-
-
- there are 3 dos news/mail/uucp packages.
- you missed the most-used (and IMHO best) one - 'Waffle'.
-
- uupc/extended is a nice mail environment. snews is a nice newsreader
- for dos. The two combined work fine.
-
- fsuucp IMHO has always been too buggy for me to rely on.
- it's darn pretty, and seems maybe a little faster, but
- my experience with it has been that it has promise, but isn't
- reliable enough for me.
-
- waffle has the best news<-->mail gatewaying features I've ever seen
- including *nix. It's news/mail/uucp features just plain work...
- I will agree that it has a different look-and-feel, though that's no
- doubt due to the fact that it's a BBS too (the others aren't).
-
- The nicest thing about waffle is that you get the same look-and-feel
- on the local PC as you can get by dialing into it from elsewhere...
- you can read news on your home system (!) the same way you read at home.
-
- I hooked snews into Waffle (!) and got a nice threaded newsreader
- that uses Waffle's lean-and-mean batching mechanism rather than the
- uupc/snews somewhat kludgy one...so I got Waffle reliability with
- snews threads...works great.
-
- waffle's in mirrors/msdos/waffle/waf165.zip on simtel20 mirrors.
- fsuucp and uupc/extended are in mirrors/msdos/uucp as I recall.
-
-
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