On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Jeffrey Watts [email protected] wrote:
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:
There's a difference between supporting something and just admiring its technological advantages to the end user. I support NetNews' text-only groups, but I merely admire the system of binary distribution through NetNews. I'd still want text-only NetNews to stick around, and if the price is binary NetNews vanishing, then so be it, despite its technological advantages to end users in the sharing of binary files.
You've obviously never run a production INN server. There is NOTHING admirable about how it works. It doesn't work well and it's a total bitch to manage. Perhaps someone completely rewrote it since I last managed one (doubt it), but it was a hoary beast back then, very hackish and unable to support many common situations well (like multiple volumes).
The best thing I can say about INN is, "At least it's not B-News or C-News."
8-)
Adrian