Old newsreader source code

[Jon Tabor]

On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 06:52:34PM +0000, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> 
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> On 05/09/2018 02:17 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
> > From: Seth Morabito
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2018 9:23 AM
> >
> >> As an aside: If you were active on Usenet in 1989, what software were you
> >> using?
> > 1988-89 is about when I started reading Usenet newsgroups.  At first, I used
> > rn under Ultrix (on a VAX 3600, the staff Ultrix system at LOTS), but soon
> > switched to Gnews (different from GNUS) under Emacs 18.59 because it saved
> > messages into an RMail format mailbox file for later access.  Once I had that I
> > almost never used any of the Unix-y newsreaders.
> >
> > (I had to switch to GNUS when Emacs 19 came out, but that's another story.)
> >
> >
> 
> By 1989 I was using Knews as most of what I did was on real
> workstations.  I am using Thunderbird at the moment but am
> seriously thinking about going back to Knews.
> 
> bill
> 

1989 was a bit before my time, Usenet-wise (I was still hitting the BBS scene
at the time), but around '93-94 when I got my first Unix shell account, I 
recall using nn, but not terribly often (I mean, gopher was _right there_ for
the taking!).

These days I use slrn from an OpenBSD box.

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Jon Tabor
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