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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: What's curr ver of Xrn and request for patches
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Date: 27 Feb 91 22:30:24 GMT
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  There are four versions of xrn in ~ftp/pub/xrn on shambhala.berkeley.edu:

-rw-r--r--  1 1244     wheel      274743 Aug 31  1990 xrn6-12-1.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 1244     wheel      287887 Sep 29 13:35 xrn6-13.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 1244     wheel      299592 Nov 17 16:02 xrn6-14.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 1244     wheel      260191 Dec 22  1989 xrn6-4.tar.Z

The most recent version is xrn6-14.tar.Z, but I think it's a little bit buggy.
Xrn 6.15 is due to be out very soon, I believe.

  As for determining default distributions, it shouldn't matter -- if a
newsgroup is a local newsgroup, then it should only be distributed locally
automatically.  I suspect that postnews and rn figure out the distribution
just by taking the first component of the newsgroup to which you are posting,
which is a hack which shouldn't even work anymore, because it shouldn't be
necessary as long as newsfeeds are configured properly, but it still works for
for backward compatibility.

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