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Using News distribution instead?
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   One correspondent thinks that perhaps the news distribution mechanism
could be pressed into service for this job.  I could have started from
C-news, say, instead of from scratch, and have progressively bent
C-news to behave like I wanted.

   My feeling is that the route was shorter as I did it, from scratch,
that it would have been from C-news.  Of course, I could have removed
the heavy administrative details of C-news: the history and `expire',
the daemons, the `cron' entries, etc., then added the interactive
features and specialized behaviors, but all this clean up would
certainly have took energies.  Right now, non counting the subsidiary
scripts and shar/unshar sources, the heart of the result is a single
(1200 lines) script written in Perl, which I find fairly more smaller
and maintainable than a patched C-news distribution would have been.


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