daleske@cbnews.ATT.COM (John D. Daleske) (03/22/89)
Our group uses notes across many machines for keeping everyone up-to-date on activity. The latest version we have is from early 1984. Are there any more recent versions distributed? I will be trying to contact someone at the University of Illinois, but would also appreciate any other leads. Thanks much! John Daleske att!cblpn!jdd Columbus 0B117 614-860-2968
shilling@pinto.gatech.edu (John Shilling) (03/22/89)
Notes was written by a fellow named Ray Essick. I recently asked him
about it and he said that you should be able to FTP a copy from
a.cs.uiuc.edu (look in /pub/Notes/). There should be compressed and
uncompressed versions of the tar image.
Rumor has it that there are some folks at HP doing work with
notesfiles. They have done a lot of "newsifying" to the code to make
it a better usenet citizen. Other than that I don't think that there
is anyone updating/enhancing it (Ray has long since graduated).
John J. Shilling
School of Information & Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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Internet: shilling@gatech.edujthomp@texsun.Central.Sun.COM (Jim Thompson Sun Dallas IR) (03/30/89)
In article <18218@gatech.edu> shilling@pinto.UUCP (John Shilling) writes: >Notes was written by a fellow named Ray Essick. I recently asked him >about it and he said that you should be able to FTP a copy from >a.cs.uiuc.edu (look in /pub/Notes/). There should be compressed and >uncompressed versions of the tar image. Notes was originally written by Rob Kolstad and Ray Essick, and pre-dates 'news' as a bbs-type system. Ray Essick is now with Prisma. (essick@prisma.com, or uunet!prisma!essick), as is Rob. (kolstad@prisma.com). Notes is also available in the comp.software.unix archives. uunet.uu.net:~ftp/news/Notes.tar.Z pick up uunet.uu.net:~ftp/comp.sources.unix/volume10/notes-mod.pch.Z While you're there. >Rumor has it that there are some folks at HP doing work with >notesfiles. They have done a lot of "newsifying" to the code to make >it a better usenet citizen. Other than that I don't think that there >is anyone updating/enhancing it (Ray has long since graduated). Rich Salz (rsalz@pineapple.bbn.com) has also done quite a bit of work on 'notes'. The HP guys are doing some work as well. Whilst at Convex, we did some work to support an internal version that was used to record revisions control information, amoung other things. Private conversations with Ray tend to make me belive that at this point, even Ray would like a notes-like interface to news. If only to avoid the notes<->news gateway issues. I understand that Larry Wall's as-yet-unreleased version of 'rn' will support such 'alternative' interfaces. (That is a rumor, 2nd hand..) I won't express my opinion of notes, but my refusal to work on/with it cost me job offer once. Suffice it to say that I prefer news. Jim Thompson jthomp@central.sun.com "I woudn't recommend sex, drugs, or insanity Network Engineering for everyone, but they've always worked for me." Sun Microsystems -- Hunter S. Thompson