Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sparky!dsndata!wayne From: wayne@dsndata.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent Subject: Re: Repost of GNEWS release 1.01 almost out beta testers sought Message-ID: Date: 29 Apr 91 11:39:49 GMT References: <303113@mailgsm.mendelson.com> Sender: wayne@dsndata.UUCP Organization: Design Data Lines: 36 In-reply-to: root@mailgsm.mendelson.com's message of 24 Apr 91 01:24:06 GMT In article <303113@mailgsm.mendelson.com> root@mailgsm.mendelson.com (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) writes: > > > [ ... ] > > For those who never heard of GNEWS it is a full feature news system. > GNEWS is written under Coherent and tested under Coherent. for those who have not heard, GNEWS is a news reader that runs under the gnu emacs system. gnews has been around for at least 2 years and is very powerful and very stable. i really dont think it is going into another beta test phase. > > GNEWS was written from scratch, but it is loosley based upon cnews. The > newsreader is loosley based upon the PSU VM/CMS news reader. this doesnt sounds like the GNEWS that everyone else knows about. you should probably change the name. > > It is much smaller than cnews. It is also designed for the COHERENT evironment. > And I think it has a lot less bugs and a much better newsreader. > cnews doesnt have a news reader. cnews also isnt that large and it is very bug free. i am sure that henry spencer would like to know about any bugs you have found in cnews. unless, of course, you are talking about a different cnews than what everyone else knows about. > [ ... ] -wayne