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From: jeff@polyslo.UUCP (Jeff Weinstein)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.misc
Subject: Re: 3.0 news -- clearing up confusion
Message-ID: <1474@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 08:25:47 GMT
References: <223494f9:190e@snark.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeff@polyslo.UUCP (Jeff Weinstein)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <223494f9:190e@snark.UUCP> eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>Henry Spencer and Geoff Collyer have stated that they are not interested
>in maintaining a main-line news release. Therefore, my understanding is
>that 3.0 will be the official continuation of the B news line. I will maintain
>and extend it. I have plans to extend netnews to support full hypertext
>functionality, if I can scrape together the money to work on it full-time.
>
Can either Henry or Geoff comment on this?  What is the point of their work
if it is not going to be part of the official news software?  Will the 3.0
news have the similar performance improvements to those claimed by the C
news implementors?  Thanks for helping to clear up the confusion.

	Jeff Weinstein
	Computer Systems Lab
	Cal Poly State Univ.
	jeff@polyslo.uucp
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