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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: <4543@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 27 Jul 88 00:57:15 GMT
Expires: 5 Sep 88 00:57:14 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	Wed Jun  1 01:28:54 1988
--- src/software.n	Tue Jul 26 16:31:14 1988
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*** 113,117
  news without having to store articles on each system.  Many of the
! Usenet backbone hosts that are also on the Internet exchange news
! articles using NNTP because the load impact of NNTP is much lower than
! uucp (and NNTP ensures much faster propagation).
  

--- 113,117 -----
  news without having to store articles on each system.  Many of the
! Usenet hosts that are also on the Internet exchange news articles using
! NNTP because the load impact of NNTP is much lower than uucp (and NNTP
! ensures much faster propagation).
  
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*** 124,126
  (although that is version 1.2a and out-of-date) and is also available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, ucsd, and gatech.  Reader clients for VMS systems should

--- 124,126 -----
  (although that is version 1.2a and out-of-date) and is also available
! from the various authors, many major hosts, and by anonymous FTP
  from ucbvax, ucsd, and gatech.  Reader clients for VMS systems should
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*** 185,187
  
! Current software is obtainable from almost any Usenet backbone site.
  Source to the 'rn' newsreader program is also widely available.

--- 185,187 -----
  
! Current software is obtainable from almost any Usenet major site.
  Source to the 'rn' newsreader program is also widely available.
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*** 209,211
  comp.sources.unix archives.  European sites should request the sources
! from their nearest backbone site.
  

--- 209,211 -----
  comp.sources.unix archives.  European sites should request the sources
! from their nearest Eunet backbone site.
  
-- 
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