17 Mar
2017
17 Mar
'17
2:54 a.m.
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Warren Toomey wrote:
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:24:22AM +1000, Warren
Toomey wrote:
[...]
After going through several readers, I ended up with "trn". Also, Alpine
has a passable reader.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."
Then, perhaps a better news reader. Any
preferences :-)
So far I've though of (and found) 
17 Mar
17 Mar
3:31 a.m.
New subject: [Uucp] News readers
Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Warren Toomey wrote:
Trn and tin should both be reasonable. I think trn4 and tin may be a
bit past the mid 80's.
I seem to remember tin was in the early 1990s (wikipedia says 1991) and
trn was probably just a little earlier.
Rn was pretty much the standard newsreader in the old days when we still
did news via serial port.
Trn will build on newer machines and does run in rn mode.
Bill
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:24:22AM +1000, Warren
Toomey wrote:
[...]
After going through several readers, I ended up with "trn". Also, Alpine
has a passable reader.
Then, perhaps a better news reader. Any
preferences :-)
So far I've though of (and found) 
9:24 p.m.
New subject: [Uucp] News readers
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 05:31:38PM -0400, William Pechter wrote:
Trn and tin should both be reasonable. I think trn4
and tin may be a
bit past the mid 80's.
I seem to remember tin was in the early 1990s (wikipedia says 1991) and
trn was probably just a little earlier.
I was certainly using trn from around '92 til '98 (when I basically stopped
reading netnews).
DF
22 Mar
22 Mar
6:25 a.m.
New subject: [Uucp] News readers
One historical side note about rn(1): that was the news reader program we modified into an
NNTP client for the first NNTP software distribution in 1986 for two reasons: filters
(KILL files), and it engaged in prefetching the next article to be read which we thought
would be especially important for an NNTP client experiencing network latency to fetch an
article for a reader - we wanted to try and preserve a snappy user interface for netnews.
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