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From: David Blacka <davidb@rwhois.net>
Subject: Re: nndb?
Date: 16 Apr 1997 11:48:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kou3l7hstl.fsf@shaker.internic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Michael Alan Dorman's message of 15 Apr 1997 19:44:16 -0400

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@calder.med.miami.edu> writes:

 Michael> Has anyone done a comparison between nndb and the NNML Module that's
 Michael> on CPAN?  It sounds like they're functionally similar.

Well, I haven't studied Ulrich's NNML module fully, but the difference
is in what purpose they perform (and, of course, the functionality
they provide).  NNML takes Gnus created and managed nnml groups and
serves them up via NNTP.  The purpose of this, it seems, is to be able
to easily move mail from one Gnus installation to another.

nndb, on the other hand, takes over the management of mail, relegating
Gnus to the role of a client.  nndb is much larger and has a bunch of
features to allow Gnus to manage mail via NNTP extensions. The purpose
of this was to have a faster backend than nnml/procmail/whatever.

-- 
David Blacka              Software Engineer        Product Development/
davidb@rwhois.net         Network Solutions, Inc.  Directory Services


  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-04-16 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-04-15 16:26 nndb? Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-04-15 18:20 ` nndb? Hrvoje Niksic
1997-04-15 22:04   ` nndb? Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-04-15 22:22 ` nndb? David Blacka
1997-04-15 23:44   ` nndb? Michael Alan Dorman
1997-04-16 15:43     ` nndb? Ulrich Pfeifer
1997-04-16 15:48     ` David Blacka [this message]
1997-04-16  2:06   ` nndb? Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-04-16  4:29     ` nndb? Jason L Tibbitts III
1997-04-16 15:47       ` nndb? David Blacka
1997-04-16  8:44   ` nndb? Kai Grossjohann

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