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From: jimb@silvlis.com (Jim Budler)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn,news.software.b
Subject: Re: REPLY: Why use NN when there is TRN???
Message-ID: <1990Nov24.075800.23631@silvlis.com>
Date: 24 Nov 90 07:58:00 GMT
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In article <1990Nov23.160854.13868@vlsi.polymtl.ca> scoob@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Christian Marcotte) writes:
>
>  Since the only responses I got from my question: "Why use NN when there
>  is TRN?" were people asking me where I could get TRN, I decided to 
>  advertise this FINE product a bit...

Yep... Trn sounds fine. But it isn't available to "the rest of us".

>
>  TRN IS THE BEST THING THAT HAPPENED TO USENET SINCE NNTP & CNEWS !!!
>
Uh, to Usenet or to the portion of Usenet on the Internet.

>  Here is part of the documentation file we wrote when installing
>  TRN on our net:
>
>##########################################################################
># 			TRN version 1.0
>#
>#   Ftp Sources:	caesar.cs.montana.edu    After 5 pm...
>#			uunet.uu.net (under /news)
>#
>###########################################################################

Nice, but no help to us poor UUCP-only sites.

jim

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