Anselmo-Ed@cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo) (03/01/90)
I'm going to be bringing up a new news/mail relay machine for Yale in the next
few months, and I'm wondering if there's really that big a difference between
B News and C News.
Our current setup: IBM-RT, B News 2.11.19, nntplink, newsxd, C News expire
15 feeds (5 nntplink, 6 nntpxmit, 4 uucp). uucp feeds
are a miniscule portion of our newsfeed.
The load average cruises along at around 2.0 most of
the day.
Nobody reads news on this machine, nobody logs into
this machine (except staff types).
The new setup: Sun SparcStation-1.
If we switch to C News, I'll probably convert our newsreading machine over
too. It's currently an IBM-RT, B News, leaf site, big disk, ~150 nntp readers
(~40 at any one time), no local logins, load average < 1 most of the time.
So what will C News buy me? A lower load average (that would be nice)?
Less maintenence (not that there's much to do now)? Better conformity to
the RFC's? Something else?
Just curious,
-- Ed
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Ed Anselmo anselmo-ed@cs.yale.edu {harvard,decvax}!yale!anselmo-edken@racerx.UUCP (Ken Hardy) (05/02/91)
I've been following this newsgroup with a varying amount of attention since I brought up B news 2.11 for the first time a few months ago. I am fairly happy with B news, though I've had some problems with it. (And still seem to be having some problems with history files disappearing.) I wonder if I should switch to C news. This may be a FAQ (I do not recall having seen it mentioned), but I wonder what people's feelings are regarding the advantages/disadvantages of B vs. C news. I gather that C news is faster. But since speed is not a big issue with me (less than full feed on a capable system), I am more interested in issues of 1) features, 2) reliabilty, and 3) administration. I imagine that there might be a lot of feedback on this. If any respondents care to mail their experiences/opinions to me, I will summarize for the net. If this is indeed a FAQ, mail your flames, and I will see to it that they are properly disposed of ;-) -- Ken Hardy uunet!racerx!ken Bridge Information Systems ken@racerx.UUCP