Atekmdp.120 NET.news,net.news utzoo!duke!chico!teklabs!tekmdp!stevenm Wed Jun 17 05:59:34 1981 New News Program Great to hear of a much improved news program, but the changes sound pretty major. Are we going to have a 'flag day' when everybody in the world has to change their netnews, or will the new news be upward compatible? Also, I'd like to see some hack to the current news so that the '.newsrc' file is created magically when a user invokes 'news', so that there is a minimal user-interface change. At a large installation, saying 'everybody do this today' seldom works. I'm not saying the changes aren't good, but don't forget the interface problem. s. mcgeady ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.