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From: raju@rssd.hk.olivetti.com (Raju M. Daryanani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Which news server?
Date: 19 Jun 1996 11:00:43 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: freyes@i-2000.com wrote:

: > I would like to install a small news server at work.
: > I have seen posts of INN(?). Would that be better than
: > the news server in the packages (ntpd?). This will be
: > used for internal use of about 5 users. We will probably
: > carry about 10 groups.

: ntpd is not a newsserver, you are confusing it with nntpd (plus Cnews).

: I think there are more people who prefer INN over Cnews, but YMMV.
: For such a small site, both should be suitable.

Having installed and managed both on different sites, I would pick
Cnews if the original poster's users are all going to log into the FreeBSD
server and read news on it.  If however one needs to use clients that
read via NNTP then INN is probably easier to manage since it's only one
package vs. Cnews + NNTP.

Raju
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