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From: seindal@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Rene' Seindal)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Review of NN, a Usenet news reader
Keywords: rn, .newsrc, b&d
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Date: 27 Jul 89 22:46:25 GMT
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peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

> In article <2794@mace.cc.purdue.edu>, asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
> > What's the big deal about
> > having a different format anyways?  If you use NN why even need to bother with
> > RN?

> vn, rn, vnews, and readnews all use the same format. Why can't nn?

Currently nn has a very limited support for maintaining a .newsrc.  Kim has
said several times, that if somebody implements full .newsrc support and sends
the changes to him, he will put it in the distribution.  If you all want
.newsrc support so badly, why doesn't one of you do it?  Do you really expect
us to implement something we would never use?  If we did it, would you expect
it to work, given that we don't use it?

Rene' Seindal (seindal@diku.dk).