From: fair-tuhs@netbsd.org (Erik E. Fair)
Subject: [TUHS] [Uucp] News readers
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:25:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15202.1490142321@cesium.clock.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ca7f722b-6b0f-aba5-1817-0b677b279521@gmail.com>
One historical side note about rn(1): that was the news reader program we modified into an NNTP client for the first NNTP software distribution in 1986 for two reasons: filters (KILL files), and it engaged in prefetching the next article to be read which we thought would be especially important for an NNTP client experiencing network latency to fetch an article for a reader - we wanted to try and preserve a snappy user interface for netnews.
Erik Fair
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2017-03-16 20:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-16 21:31 ` William Pechter
2017-03-17 15:24 ` Derek Fawcus
2017-03-22 0:25 ` Erik E. Fair [this message]
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