Newsgroups: news.admin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: News.announce.newuser seems to be empty
Message-ID: <1988Aug23.154502.25035@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <20421@watmath.waterloo.edu> <1070@cfa214.cfa250.harvard.edu> <13498@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <4712@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <2457@inco.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 88 15:45:02 GMT

In article <2457@inco.UUCP> mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack) writes:
>Are there any major new versions of newsreaders in the works,
>aside from rn 5.0? C news? 3.0?

C News has not touched the news readers -- our distribution includes the
simple Australian readnews and rn, which we think cover naive and serious
users (respectively) fairly well.  We have neither desire nor intent to
hack readers.

I believe 3.0 does include reimplemented readers, though.
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