Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!epiwrl!epimass!jbuck
From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: USENET Software: History and Sources (Updated: 12 November 1988)
Message-ID: <2955@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 11 Mar 89 02:47:56 GMT
References: <6189@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <25358@conexch.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <25358@conexch.UUCP> root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) writes:
>In article <6189@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) writes:
>>The current release of news is 2.11, patchlevel 14, dated 12/1/87.
>
>On January 25, 1989 Rick Adams issued patches 15, 16, and 17 for news 2.11.
>So, isn't the current release of news 2.11 patchlevel 17 ?

No.  At patch level 14, we have a solid release that's been in
operation for a year.  The known problems aren't too severe.
Patchlevel 17 seems to break stuff on a lot of systems; I wouldn't
recommend installing it just yet.


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