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From: news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System)
Subject: Re: TheNews version 2.02 available for FTP
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.010650.7956@massey.ac.nz>
Reply-To: A.K.Burton@massey.ac.nz
Organization: Massey University
References: <fkth++m@rpi.edu> <1991Jun5.150334.29427@guinness.idbsu.edu> <1991Jun5.223914.28149@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 91 01:06:50 GMT

In article <1991Jun5.223914.28149@neon.Stanford.EDU>
philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
>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.

I have just installed version 2.02 to evaluate and it converted my .newsrc with
no problem! I'm using system 7 on a IIci 5/80 and it works faultlessly so far.

One thing I would like to see is a little dialog box, where you could easily
set up a .signature to be automatically included in postings.

Cheers
Al
A.K.Burton@massey.ac.nz
Macintosh Consultant
Massey University
New Zealand