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From: spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Yet another view on the death of the "soapbox groups"
Message-ID: <3911@gatech.CSNET>
Date: Wed, 18-Jun-86 23:11:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: gatech.3911
Posted: Wed Jun 18 23:11:04 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Jun-86 01:10:58 EDT
References: <1760@hound.UUCP> <20682@styx.UUCP> <6910@ki4pv.UUCP>
Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
Organization: Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), Georgia Tech
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In article <6910@ki4pv.UUCP> tanner@ki4pv.UUCP (Tanner Andrews) writes:
>) styx!fair writes:
>) I can do nothing about the legions of pinheaded system administrators
>) who have nether ... nor the time to run current software ... 
>
>OK, wise guy.  That tears it.  I'm as tired of the ancient software as
>you are.  Tell me: What decade will 2.10.3 come out.  Seems like it's
>been "beta" for a fairly long time.
>
>When it comes out, (if we live so long), tell me the name of the
>nearest site which can supply me with a copy of the thing.
>

As was announced at Usenix last week, news 2.11 will be released 
1 August 1986.  It will be published to mod.sources, and it will be
available for uucp and ftp from most of the major backbone sites at
that time.  2.10.3 will never be officially released -- we're going
directly to 2.11.

Rick Adams has been pretty constantly adding enhancements and fixes to the
software for the past year and a half.  I don't believe that it has ever
stabilized to the point where Rick was happy to release it to public use.

"Ancient" is sites STILL running 2.10, 2.10.1, and even 2.9 and A-news.
2.10.2 has been out for about 2 years.  What is the excuse of sites
that haven't upgraded?
-- 
Gene Spafford
Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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