Re: Reading news via WWW browsers

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Message-id: <sfYd6lEB0KGWM2qhZI@holmes.parc.xerox.com>
Date: 	Mon, 1 Mar 1993 14:44:01 PST
Sender: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
From: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.xerox.com>
To: Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@germany.eu.net, TONYJ@scs.slac.stanford.edu,
        gss@iil.intel.com, marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu, wei@xcf.berkeley.edu,
        www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch, gss@iil.intel.com (Sheaffer Gad)
Subject: Re: Reading news via WWW browsers
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Excerpts from ext.WorldWideWeb: 1-Mar-93 Reading news via WWW browsers
Sheaffer Gad@iil.intel.c (2279)

> We are using here a newsreader called
>     TIN (written by Iain.Lea%anl433.uucp@Germany.EU.net) that whenever a news
>     group in entered, it first indexes all the postings into threads, and then
>     presents a view of the group traffic as a collection of threads.

It's perhaps worth noting that the newsreader in use at the Software
Technology Program of MCC in 1987-1990, written by Michael Begeman,
called `gnews', did this.  `gnews' was released into the public domain
several years ago, but I don't know where to get it from MCC these days.
 Looks like the code can be used in other things, as long as the credit
is preserved.  I've put a copy for ftp as
ftp://parcftp.parc.xerox.com/transient/gnews.tar.Z.  It'll be there for
a couple of weeks.

Bill