On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Booker Bense wrote: >- Trn was around way before tin. It was an extension of the >original rn which was one of the very first widely available >newsreaders. Or at least it was the only one I ever saw before >about 1991 or so. ... >>If I'm right about scoring -- basically I have never needed the scoring >>feature. > >- Trn has had scoring available for nearly ten years now. I suspect I'm >the only person using it. Yeah, I know that.. But it was "swiped" from slrn, right? again, a compare/contrast between slrn and trn would be nice, if anybody here has used both significantly. >- Trn and rn have always been the same program, you just got a different >behaviour depending on how you set it up. No they haven't, you said so yourself in the first quoted paragraph above. >>Also, shouldn't trn 4.0 go "final" some eon? Can't some half-finished >>features be removed or documented that way or somesuch? We've been using >>it for years and years and years.. It'd be nice just to say it's 4.0 final.. >> > >- Trn is basically abandonware at this point, I don't think anybody's >seriously hacked at it in the last 8 years. If you want all these support >things you'll either have to organize them yourself or pick a more supported >news reader. That still doesn't explain why it doesn't go "final" in the state it is now or (slightly?) modified.. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp
