discolo@ucsbcsl.UUCP (Anthony V. Discolo) (05/06/85)
I just received this via mail from sdcrdcf!RDCF.SDC.UUCP!lwall@cepu.UUCP (Larry Wall). > I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment that the old readnews can be > improved upon. In fact, I posted a new readnews to the net nearly two years > ago. Unfortunately, I called it rn, and it is currently in use by several > hundred sites on the net. As you can see, this could be the cause for > considerable confusion. I thought I'd forewarn you that you may get some > flames from the net about this, especially since there are a lot of people > out there who profess a great liking for my program. > As to solutions to the confusion problem, it seems to me that it would be > a little easier at this juncture for you to change the name of your program > than for me to change the name of mine. Of course, I don't have the name > "rn" trademarked or anything, but do we really want to get each other's mail > for the next 5 years? > Larry Wall > sdcrdcf!lwall I definitely don't want any flames, nor do I want Larry Wall's mail for the next five years, so for Usenet's intents and purposes, I am renaming my ``readnews software'' to YARN or Yet Another Read News. I hope that will resolve any ambiguity that all you might have out there. -- uucp: {ucbvax,cepu}!ucsbcsl!discolo arpa: ucsbcsl!discolo@BERKELEY csnet: discolo@ucsb USMail: U.C. Santa Barbara Department of Computer Science Santa Barbara, CA 93106 GTE: (805) 961-4178