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From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers
Subject: Changes to USENET Software: History and Sources
Message-ID: <3737@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 88 23:45:44 GMT
Expires: 13 May 88 23:45:43 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
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This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of 
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to this
group, and the version posted a few weeks ago.  New users may ignore
this posting -- it is intended to enable experienced users
to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents.

*** old/software.n	Tue Mar  1 20:19:17 1988
--- src/software.n	Sun Apr  3 17:50:42 1988
***************
*** 5,7
  Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford)
! [Most recent change: 7 February 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  

--- 5,7 -----
  Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford)
! [Most recent change: 2 April 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  
***************
*** 77,81
  A second, more versatile interface, "rn", was developed by Larry Wall
! of SDC (now JPL/NASA) and released in 1984.  This interface also uses
! full-screen display with direct positioning, but it includes many other
! useful features and is very popular with many regular net readers. The
  interface includes reading, discarding, and/or processing of articles

--- 77,81 -----
  A second, more versatile interface, "rn", was developed by Larry Wall
! of JPL/NASA and released in 1984.  This interface also uses full-screen
! display with direct positioning, but it includes many other useful
! features and is very popular with many regular net readers. The
  interface includes reading, discarding, and/or processing of articles
***************
*** 135,136
  Penn State (whv@psuvm.bitnet).
  

--- 135,147 -----
  Penn State (whv@psuvm.bitnet).
+ 
+ A VAX/VMS implementation is available that implements a screen-based
+ user interface with the functionality similar to rn. The program allows
+ reading, posting, direct replies, moderated newsgroups, etc.  in a
+ fashion closely related to regular news.  The implementation includes
+ the RFC1036 news propagation algorithms and integrated use of the NNTP
+ protocols to support remote news servers, implemented as a VAX/VMS
+ Decnet object.  A RFC977 server implemented as a Decnet object is also
+ included.  The license for the software is free, and there are no
+ restrictions on the re-distribution.  For more info, contact
+ gih900@fac.anu.oz (Geoff Huston).
  
-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf