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From: lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Review of NN, a Usenet news reader
Keywords: rn, .newsrc, b&d
Message-ID: <693@aurora.AthabascaU.CA>
Date: 30 Jul 89 11:51:54 GMT
References: <1836@papaya.bbn.com> <1150@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> <1050@unocss.UUCP> <402@laas.laas.fr> <2794@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
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In article <2794@mace.cc.purdue.edu> asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
[ ... ]
>maybe even the *standard* .newsrc file format.  What's the big deal about
>having a different format anyways?  If you use NN why even need to bother with
>RN?

Supporting the standard .newsrc is necessary if you want arbitron to
generate reasonable statistics. I don't think Brian Reid should be
responsible for hacking arbitron every time someone comes up with a
new and improved .foorc file format.

Even if a news reader uses it's own format database, it shouldn't
be that difficult to maintain a parallel .newsrc file.


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Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
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