Usenet NEWS vs. Bittorrent

[Adrian Griffis]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Jeffrey Watts
<jeffrey.w.watts at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> 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