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Re: ADDGROUP with 'real' names

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From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 00:00
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John Washington (john@wash.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> On Wednesday, in article <817661125snz@keris.demon.co.uk>
>      chris@keris.demon.co.uk "Chris Croughton" wrote:

> CC> Some time ago someone (John Washington?) said that they had a version of
> CC> the SNEWS ADDGROUP program that generated names which bore some
> CC> resemblance to the newsgroup, rather than the usual time-based ones.

> In case anyone else wants, I'll post it here, also just in case I've
> forgotten to mail it to Malcolm.

> If you dig around in newsgroup files at all, I simply can't
> imagine being without this mod.

> When is the next Snews release, Malcolm?  I've been holding back
> on doing further mods until 1.31, in particular because I hope
> you'll do more restructuring to reduce the large chunks of repeated
> code.

No specific plans as the current version appears to be reasonably
stable.

-- 
Malcolm S. Muir
Sunderland
England
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From: malcolm@demon.net (Malcolm Muir)
Subject: Re: ADDGROUP with 'real' names
Date: 1995/12/01
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