Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!tidk!storm From: storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????. Message-ID: <636@texas.dk> Date: 26 Jul 90 17:35:01 GMT References: <1990Jul21.174535.8281@lokkur.dexter.mi.us> <1864@tkou02.enet.dec.com> <3746@auspex.auspex.com> Organization: Texas Instruments, Denmark Lines: 31 guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes: >>80 or 90% of newsreaders are the same, the only exception I know of is >>nn (which, by the by, is the best damn fine newsreader around) >Well, Wayne says it's going to be soup soon; we'll see whether things >change (although I'm told one of the GNU EMACS newsreaders also deals >with threads reasonably, and there were some mutterings about "nn" >picking up some of the threads stuff from "trn"). I've had some talks with Wayne some time back about adding his thread handling to nn, but I have been busy getting the 6.4 release into a good shape (which it is now!) So next on the agenda for nn is: Internationalisation (multicharacter support) Thread handling (maybe based on trn - I still have to see it) >>(and for all I know was written by a native English speaker). You are as wrong as you can be - ever heard me *speak* :-) :-) :-) >The author posted it from a TI site in Denmark, where, as I remember, he >works; I don't know if Kim is a Dane, an expatriate from an >English-speaking country, or an expatriate from a non-English-speaking >country. In case anybody is interested I'm Danish. -- Kim F. Storm No news is good news, Texas Instruments A/S, Denmark but nn is better!