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From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: [inn] How to have more than one server
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:14:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yln0x2iuwe.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m17ko8rzah.fsf@reader.newsguy.com> (Harry Putnam's message of "Tue, 19 Mar 2002 14:03:02 -0800")

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Thanks for clearing that up.  The documentation with inn is massive, but
> doesn't really contain an overview that explains explicitly what it does
> or can do.  At least not in language I understood.  The INSTALL file
> alone is some 1200 lines, and there are 82 manpages.

INN really isn't targetted for the small user or for someone not already
very familiar with news.  I'd like to increase its friendliness, but it's
difficult to do and requires a bunch of infrastructure improvements.

Many individual users are probably better off with something considerably
smaller, like leafnode.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-21  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-19 18:05 Harry Putnam
2002-03-19 20:58 ` Jens Müller
2002-03-19 21:50   ` Harry Putnam
2002-03-19 21:20 ` Kevin Falcone
2002-03-19 21:54   ` frank paulsen
2002-03-19 22:03   ` Harry Putnam
2002-03-21  1:14     ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2002-03-21  1:30       ` Jorge Godoy
2002-03-21 19:28       ` Harry Putnam
2002-03-22  5:12         ` Kevin Falcone
2002-03-22 15:12           ` Harry Putnam
2002-03-22 17:38         ` Reiner Steib
2002-03-22 19:09           ` Harry Putnam
2002-03-19 23:49 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2002-03-20  6:43   ` Harry Putnam
2002-03-20 12:20     ` Karl Kleinpaste

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