Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: When is C News being released?
Message-ID: <1989May9.191034.3424@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <24133@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Tue, 9 May 89 19:10:34 GMT

In article <24133@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> rob@violet.berkeley.edu (Rob Robertson) writes:
>When is C news being released?

It's about to go into beta test (no, we do not need testers -- this is going
to be a restricted and fairly private beta).  General release as soon as
we're sure it works on a wide variety of systems.

>Netnews in the 1980's:  USA, many | Rob Robertson at U of California, Berkeley
>releases; Canada, 0 releases.	  | 	    rob@violet.berkeley.edu

Don't you count our alpha release?  It *did* work, albeit with quirks.

Personally, I do not consider a steady stream of revised releases to be
a good sign... :-)
-- 
Mars in 1980s:  USSR, 2 tries, |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
2 failures; USA, 0 tries.      | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu