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Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers
Subject: Changes to USENET Software: History and Sources
Message-ID: <15230@gatech.gatech.edu>
Date: Sun, 3-May-87 16:17:10 EDT
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Posted: Sun May  3 16:17:10 1987
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*** old/software.n	Wed Apr 29 19:11:44 1987
--- src/software.n	Sun May  3 13:44:09 1987
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*** 1,2 ****
! Newsgroups: news.admin,mod.announce.newusers
  Expires: 40days
--- 1,2 ----
! Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers
  Expires: 40days
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*** 5,7 ****
  Original from: spaf@gatech (Gene Spafford)
! [Most recent change: 15 March 1987 by spaf@gatech.edu]
  
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  Original from: spaf@gatech (Gene Spafford)
! [Most recent change: 13 April 1987 by spaf@gatech.edu]
  
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*** 50,52 ****
  
! The current release of news is 2.11, patchlevel 3, dated 12/29/86.
  Article format is specified in RFC 850, last revised in October 1986 (a
--- 50,52 ----
  
! The current release of news is 2.11, patchlevel 8, dated 4/10/87.
  Article format is specified in RFC 850, last revised in October 1986 (a
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  January 1982 Usenix conference.  The current release of notes is
! version 2.7.
  
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  January 1982 Usenix conference.  The current release of notes is
! allegedly version 2.7.
  
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*** 119,130 ****
  
! NNTP grew out of independent work in 1984-1985 by Brian Kantor at U. C.
! San Diego and Phil Lapsley at U. C. Berkeley, The package is currently
! in release 1.3, and was developed at U. C. Berkeley by Phil Lapsley
! with help from Erik Fair, Steven Grady, and Mike Meyer, among others.
! The NNTP package is distributed on the 4.3BSD release tape (although
! that is version 1.2a and out-of-date) and is also available from the
! various authors, many backbone hosts, and by anonymous FTP from ucbvax,
! sdcsvax, and seismo.  A new release should be posted to mod.sources in
! the near future.  Reader clients for VMS and TOPS-20 systems should
! also be available soon.
  
--- 119,130 ----
  
! NNTP grew out of independent work in 1984-1985 by Brian Kantor at U.
! C.  San Diego and Phil Lapsley at U. C. Berkeley, The package is
! currently in release 1.3, and was developed at U. C. Berkeley by Phil
! Lapsley with help from Erik Fair, Steven Grady, and Mike Meyer, among
! others.  The NNTP package is distributed on the 4.3BSD release tape
! (although that is version 1.2a and out-of-date) and is also available
! from the various authors, many backbone hosts, and by anonymous FTP
! from ucbvax, sdcsvax, and seismo.  A new release should be posted to
! comp.sources.unix in the near future.  Reader clients for VMS and
! TOPS-20 systems should also be available soon.
  
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*** 143,146 ****
  B news software (i.e., 2.11).  "notes" users may obtain some patches
! from the mod.sources archives which enable recent versions of "notes"
! to interact moderated groups somewhat properly.
  
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  B news software (i.e., 2.11).  "notes" users may obtain some patches
! from the comp.sources.unix archives which enable recent versions of
! "notes" to interact moderated groups somewhat properly.
  
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*** 185,188 ****
  Sources for both news 2.11 and "rn" are also available in the
! mod.sources archives.  European sites should request the sources from
! their nearest backbone site.
  
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  Sources for both news 2.11 and "rn" are also available in the
! comp.sources.unix archives.  European sites should request the sources
! from their nearest backbone site985:1