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From: msimpson@bbncca.ARPA (Mike Simpson)
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Subject: Re: Interfacing netnews and mail softwar - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 31-Aug-84 13:51:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 31 13:51:39 1984
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31 August 1984.

	To follow up on what Dave Sherman said regarding Larry
Wall's RN:  I give it 3 and three-quarters stars.

        Yes, it's fast.  It does (or can be made to do) all the
things you would want 'readnews' to do.  I LOVE it.  I got a
beta-test version from Larry in early June, and in between
vacations and travel, I have managed to get it running on our
11/70-like BBN C Machine.  Some additional casts are required,
however, if the code is running on non-Vaxen machines.

        I have recently tried to reach Larry over the network to
report my findings, but mail is getting bounced back from SDCRDCF.
(Larry -- If you're reading this, give me a call at 617-497-2819
sometime during the week of September 10th.)  But I'm using RN
now to read netnews (and to post this article), and I don't think
I'll ever go back to 'readnews' again.

	     -- Mike Simpson
		msimpson@bbncca  (ARPA)
		{decvax,ihnp4,linus,ima,wjh12}!bbncca!msimpson (USENET)
-- 
-- your obedient servant,
   Mike Simpson, BBN
   msimpson@bbn-unix (ARPA)
   {decvax,ihnp4,ima,linus,wjh12}!bbncca!msimpson (Usenet)
   617-497-2819 (Ma Bell)