Re: Operating systems for Statland

[John H Palmieri <John.H.Palmieri.2@nd.edu>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> "Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
> 
> > No, not really. NewsWatcher is quasi-open source, and the tree has forked
> > several times. 
> 
> 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...

Maybe.  It depends, for example, on what the URL for each newsreader
at 

  http://quimby.gnus.org/cgi-bin/newsreaders

is supposed to do.  There used to be a web page which kept track of
all of the versions of NewsWatcher, but it seems to have disappeared.
Since such a thing doesn't exist, it might be useful to specify a URL
for each one.  (Whereas with Mozilla, you can give a single URL and be
content, with the different NewsWatchers, people will not find
MT-NewsWatcher if they go to the site for NewsWatcher, etc.)

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