karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (10/15/88)
jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:
Lotsa luck; we still have people running 2.9 news out there.
Really? There are enough differences between 2.11.14 and 2.9 (which
dates from, I think, 1982) that I would tend to think that a 2.9 site
would fall apart at the first hint of, e.g., a moderated newgroup msg.
That's not to mention the carnage that a checkgroups would cause, or
the size limitations that were present 'way back then.
SysV cannot run 2.9, due to its 14-char filename length restriction in
combination with the fact that 2.9 held a flat tree of groups using
full-length dotted group names in /usr/spool/news.
And 2.9 still special-cased things like net.general=>net.followup.
I don't think a 2.9 site is possible any more, much less an A news
site. But I could be wrong, of course.
--Karl