On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Denis McKeon wrote: [...] > Looking at the changes.txt file from a 1999 version of the slrn docs, > scoring was added to slrn at version 0.7.8.2 - but I don't have a date > to match with that version number. For trn, run `head -38 trn.c` and > we see that 'rn' was started just over 20 years ago: > > /* This software is copyrighted as detailed in the LICENSE file. */ > > /* trn -- threaded readnews program based on rn 4.4 > * > * Author/Maintainer of trn: wayne@clari.net (Wayne Davison) > * Maintainer of rn: sob@bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber) > * Original Author: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) [...] Which should of course remind us that another reason for using trn is that it is the One True Newsreader by Usenet apostolic succession. I was googling just now for old newsgroup articles related to rn/trn and ran across a couple golden ones by Chip Salzenberg (who was way off on his estimate of when the whole world would be on the Net) and Larry Wall: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=263F16D4.1584%40tct.uucp&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1993Jun12.002420.902%40netlabs.com&oe=utf-8&output=gplain -- David Sewell, Managing Editor Electronic Imprint, The University of Virginia Press PO Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318 USA Courier: 310 Old Ivy Way, Suite 302, Charlottesville VA 22903 Email: dsewell@virginia.edu Tel: +1 434 924 9973 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
