Re: motd or similar for readers

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From: Iain Lea
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 10:29

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Iain Lea (Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net) wrote:
: In article <19qnhdINN6h6@hpscdf.scd.hp.com> posted on 23 Sep 92 21:28:13 GMT,
: John Schmitz (schmitz@scd.hp.com) wrote:
: : 
: :   xmotd yymmdd hhmmss ["GMT"]
: : 
: : which would give you the file only if it is later than the date
: : specified.  I tried this with tin and trn and INN and it seems to
: : work well.
: 
: Good idea. I will use this command structure.

I have now implemented the XMOTD extension on our NNTP server. It works OK
but I will let it have a few weeks of general usage before releasing it to
the clamouring masses :-)

The next release of the tin newsreader will have client support for XMOTD.

Iain

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From: Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net (Iain Lea)
Subject: Re: motd or similar for readers
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