From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Tue,  6 Jul 1993 00:48:22 -0400
From: Ozan S. Yigit oz@sis.yorku.ca
Subject: porting unix progs to plan9
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>2.  For those areas where there IS a definite hole (e.g.  news reader),
>writing new applications seems a much better idea...

I entirely agree with this: I detest all newsreaders: they are cramped,
monolithic pieces of cybercrud that make vms utilities look simple and
elegant.

There needs to be a better way to do news, both on an average un*x and
on plan 9.

oz