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author | Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-06-26 12:29:49 +0000 |
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committer | Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-06-26 12:29:49 +0000 |
commit | 2815584c199334c2ff4a2b013e977e0a560b0da3 (patch) | |
tree | f98cbb5ceb07bfba891ff7d38a66fdb1986169c1 /news/diablo/pkg-descr | |
parent | 5ba37bc87ab5d8bb2cf508fe5e661a3a01b5a782 (diff) |
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diff --git a/news/diablo/pkg-descr b/news/diablo/pkg-descr index bf4b271c1c92..867d6fc08ed1 100644 --- a/news/diablo/pkg-descr +++ b/news/diablo/pkg-descr @@ -1,24 +1,6 @@ -DIABLO is a backbone news transit system, designed to replace INND on -backbone machines. DIABLO UNDERSTANDS NEWSFEEDS ONLY, IT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND -NEWSREADER CLIENTS!. You cannot run diablo on a machine which needs to -accept nntp post commands or newsreading-related nntp commands. You cannot -point your NNTPSERVER at a host running Diablo. +Diablo is a comprehensive newsfeeding and newsreading software package +that was originally developed by Matthew Dillon and is now run as an open +source project. Diablo is significantly faster and more robust than INN, +and scales well to multi-server installations. -Diablo is strictly a backbone news transit system. It will accept newsfeeds -using the ihave or the streaming check/takethis protocols, and it can -generate newsfeeds using ihave or streaming check/takethis protocols. Diablo -maintains a news spool and dhistory file, but the spool and history file is -arranged very differently from INN. - -Diablo is also between 10 and 20 times as fast as INN in regards to incoming -feeds, and extremely efficient for outgoing feeds. I have been running -Diablo on BEST Internet's backbone news machine for several weeks now, and -it has run flawlessly. - -If you have a dedicated newsfeeds machine which does feeds, feeds, and -nothing but feeds, Diablo may be for you. - -Diablo was written and is currently being maintained by Matthew Dillon, -you can mail me at: dillon@backplane.com - -WWW: http://www.backplane.com/ +WWW: http://www.openusenet.org/diablo/ |