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Changes to USENET Software: History and Sources

#192
From: Gene Spafford
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1989 21:51
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This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to the
news.announce.newusers group, and the version posted a few weeks ago.
It is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the
regularly posted Usenet documents.

*** old/software.n	Sat Nov 12 18:50:17 1988
--- src/software.n	Sat Apr  8 16:43:53 1989
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*** 1,3
  Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers
! Expires: 90days
  Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU

--- 1,3 -----
  Newsgroups: news.admin,news.announce.newusers
! Expires: +90days
  Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU
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*** 5,7
  Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford)
! [Most recent change: 12 November 1988 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  

--- 5,7 -----
  Original from: spaf@purdue (Gene Spafford)
! [Most recent change: 7 April 1989 by Gene Spafford <spaf@cs.purdue.edu>]
  
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*** 50,52
  
! The current release of news is 2.11, patchlevel 14, dated 12/1/87.
  Article format is specified in RFC 1036, last revised in December 1987 (a

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! The current release of news is 2.11, patchlevel 17, dated Feb 1989.
  Article format is specified in RFC 1036, last revised in December 1987 (a
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*** 118,134
  NNTP grew out of independent work in 1984-1985 by Brian Kantor at U.
! C.  San Diego and Phil Lapsley at U. C. Berkeley.  It is now in release
! 1.5, and includes support for System V UNIX with Excelan Ethernet cards
! and DECNET under Ultrix.  NNTP was developed at U. C. Berkeley by Phil
! Lapsley with help from Erik Fair, Steven Grady, and Mike Meyer, among
! others.  The NNTP package is distributed on the 4.3BSD release tape
! (although that is version 1.2a and out-of-date) and is also available
! from the various authors, many major hosts, and by anonymous FTP from
! ucbvax, ucsd, and gatech.  Reader clients for VMS systems should be
! available soon.  A TOPS-20 reader was developed by Dave Edwards of SRI
! <dle@kl.sri.com>, but current availability is unknown.  There is also
! an NNTP-based netnews reader for Symbolics Lisp Machines (under Genera
! 7) available for anonymous FTP from ucbvax.berkeley.edu [10.2.0.78] in
! pub/nntp-clients/lispm written by Ian Connolly <connolly@ge-crd.arpa>.
! An NNTP reader suite for PC's running MS-DOS and having Excelan boards
! is available for ftp from ames.arc.nasa.gov; get the pcrrn files.
  

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  NNTP grew out of independent work in 1984-1985 by Brian Kantor at U.
! C.  San Diego and Phil Lapsley at U. C. Berkeley.  It is now in
! release 1.5, and includes support for System V UNIX with Excelan
! Ethernet cards and DECNET under Ultrix.  NNTP was developed at U. C.
! Berkeley by Phil Lapsley with help from Erik Fair, Steven Grady, and
! Mike Meyer, among others.  The NNTP package is distributed on the
! 4.3BSD release tape (although that is version 1.2a and out-of-date)
! and is also available from the various authors, many major hosts, and
! by anonymous FTP from ucbvax, ucsd, and gatech.  Reader clients for
! VMS systems should be available soon.  A TOPS-20 reader was developed
! by Dave Edwards of SRI <dle@kl.sri.com>, but current availability is
! unknown.  There is also an NNTP-based netnews reader for Symbolics
! Lisp Machines (under Genera 7) available for anonymous FTP from
! ucbvax.berkeley.edu [10.2.0.78] in pub/nntp-clients/lispm written by
! Ian Connolly <connolly@coins.cs.umass.edu> and maintained by Richard
! Welty <steinmetz!lewis!welty>.  An NNTP reader suite for PC's running
! MS-DOS and having Excelan boards is available for ftp from
! ames.arc.nasa.gov; get the pcrrn files.
  
-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf
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From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc
Subject: Changes to USENET Software: History and Sources
Message-ID: <6493@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 89 21:51:21 GMT
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