AU/X as a mail/news machine?

[Michael Peirce]

I've been contemplating selling my old home Mail/News machine (an ATT Unix-PC)
and running AU/X on my Mac IIcx instead.

I figure I can get enough from selling the Unix-PC to buy an extra 80MEG disk
for the Mac where AU/X can live.  I have a few questions -

Are people successfully running usenet (UUCP & News) on AU/X?

Is there enough disk for this?  (I've only got a 40 Meg disk on the Unix-PC
and this isn't even full all the time).  I wouldn't mind removing parts
of the distribution (like GNU Emacs, etc).

Are there any other gotcha's when running AU/X as a part-time usenet machine
(I do plan on using the Mac/OS during the day...)?

-- michael