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Re: Why not as a newsgroup?



On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:

> > I agree with you, though, that a newsgroup would be nice.  But the current
> > format is working just fine for me.  One possible problem with a newsgroup
> > is that there are a whole bunch of Debian mailing lists.  I don't know how
> > much traffic the lists get, but Debian might not have the resources to
> > support a news server that gets that much traffic.  (I don't know what
> > news server require for resources; I was just speculating.)
> > 

If you can do UUCP over TCP/IP I can provide the groups as compressed
batches. You would need cnews+ncompress (install ncompress first). I am
not sure if leafnode comes with an rnews command. If it does, you could
use that.  



George Bonser

>From our family to you, a toast. Peace, Health, and Prosperity.  


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