From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19893 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Operating systems for Statland Date: 15 Dec 1998 22:02:05 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199812152032.PAA23038@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035158160 13908 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:56:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:56:00 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA01638 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:28:45 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAB29966; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:28:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:28:25 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA22411 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:28:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (ppp109.uio.no [129.240.240.114]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA01628 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 16:28:06 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA20759; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 22:29:09 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Simon Reynolds' _Energy Flash_ X-Now-Playing: Peter Gabriel's _Shaking The Tree - Sixteen Golden Greats_: "Biko" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: "Edward J. Sabol"'s message of "Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:32:32 -0500" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070069 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.69) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > No, not really. NewsWatcher is quasi-open source, and the tree has forked > several times. The original NewsWatcher has maybe one release per year, > mostly to keep it working gracefully with Mac OS updates or when a serious > bug is found. MT-NewsWatcher is actually more popular than the original due > to it's multi-threaded user interface. There's also Yet Another NewsWatcher > (a.k.a. YA-NewsWatcher) and Value-Added NewsWatcher (a.k.a. VA-NewsWatcher) > and Word Services-NewsWatcher (a.k.a. WS-NewsWatcher). Yikes. But isn't it reasonable to consider these all to be Newswatcher, only different versions, just as I consider all Mozillas to be Mozilla and all trns to be trn, and stuff... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen