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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: UseNet changes
Message-ID: <1988Jun17.213804.18080@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 88 21:38:04 GMT

> And someone mentioned the mythical 'C' news. There was an alpha release
> posting a few months ago, then mysteriously no discussion to be seen!
> What happenned to it? What is the status on it?

The alpha release works fine, and is in use at quite a few sites.  (We
get mail from the damndest places...)  I assure you that C News isn't
mythical.  I wish it was, then I could tell Geoff to stop harrassing
me about all the things I was supposed to have finished weeks ago...
We're working towards a more definitive release, but we've both been
busy -- me especially -- and progress is slow.

> I for one am most 
> willing to devote disk space and CPU cycles to getting 'C' news ported
> to small architecture machines (SCO Xenix on 80286, 16 bit int, yuck,
> but it works!) ...

Not a problem, C News already runs on pdp11s.
-- 
Man is the best computer we can      |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
put aboard a spacecraft. --Von Braun | {ihnp4,decvax,uunet!mnetor}!utzoo!henry