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[lots of arguing about NG, Mime, and other stuff deleted]

Okay folks anybody want to direct me to enough information/sources to write
an NG clone that uses Mime as it's fundamental posting mechanism??  Anybody
want to help me write one??

How about we form a group, collaborate on a solution (ala the FSF) design the
back-end to be fairly machine independent & offer it to other groups to put 
their mac/pc/sun/amiga/etc front-ends on it.  Of course the source code would
be released under the FSF copy-left agreements - that way nobody will have to
buy this functionality.

Primary Design Goals

  - Machine Independent Back-end
  - Text stripped & placed on the front of the message like NG 
  - At least NG functionality for the NeXT interface 
  - Use/support standard file formats  
  - NeXT version will be able to read NG but will only post Mime 
  - please email me with other "features" you might like to see added

Of course, we'll probably be continually flamed for allowing lots of folks 
around the globe to gobble up bandwidth.  Oh well.

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Tyler Gingrich				(614)292-7211
tyler+@osu.edu

PS: Hey Mark, you seem to be the Mime expert -- care to help with the back-end?

PPS: If you have an idea for the name/icon for this puppy, email them to me &
whoever joins the programming effort can help me pick.  Unfortunately, 
NewsGrazer is already taken -- it's such an descriptive name.  Quite elegant
actually.