Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!ambar From: ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: TMNN development (Was: Comments on C news) Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 89 23:52:46 GMT References: <2228@vicom.COM> <1989Jun20.211939.7835@utzoo.uucp> <940@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: Madhouse International Technologies Lines: 21 In-reply-to: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com's message of 21 Jun 89 19:38:20 GMT From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen) Date: 21 Jun 89 19:38:20 GMT Cnews looks like a great package (ask me in two days) but it will need some extensions before it is as useful as B news. With TMNN going through another major revision phase a lot of us will be using C news and extending it to meet the needs at our sites. Beg pardon. TMNN is NOT going through a major revision (which, to me, implies some redesign and/or new features). It is going through a badly needed major debugging. Our mantra through the whole process has been "No New Features!" Ted has all of the bad pointer/corruption problems out of expire and rnews (we think). I am working on the readers. I think you'll see the next release in a week or so, and I am certain that it will be much more reliable. AMBAR ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu {mit-eddie,uunet}!bloom-beacon!ambar