Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!agate!stanford.edu!neon.Stanford.EDU!pescadero.Stanford.EDU!philip From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: TheNews version 2.02 available for FTP Message-ID: <1991Jun5.223914.28149@neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 5 Jun 91 22:39:14 GMT Article-I.D.: neon.1991Jun5.223914.28149 References: <1991Jun5.150334.29427@guinness.idbsu.edu> Sender: news@neon.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Reply-To: philip@pescadero.stanford.edu Organization: Stanford University Lines: 19 In article <1991Jun5.150334.29427@guinness.idbsu.edu>, bcarter@claven.idbsu.edu (Bruce Carter) writes: |> Thanks for making this available, and thanks to Bill for writing it! I'm |> hoping that if the bug in adding/deleting groups is fixed that I can get our |> administration to site license this package. I checked it out, and am not impressed. Opening a session is very slow if you have a lot of groups on your server, and crashed horribly when trying to convert my unix .newsrc file (which is an advertized feature in the manual). Also, setup/preferences info appears to be stored in the application. Among other things, this results in breaking the application if it crashes. Perhaps some of this is because of System 7, but I had similar problems with an earlier version running on 6.0.7. Summary - not a bad idea, but needs work before I'll scrap XRN for it. -- Philip Machanick philip@pescadero.stanford.edu