From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Barry Margolin Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/05/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 475214219 Distribution: world References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7gt7qu$rlo$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7gt9k8$2pl$1@nef.ens.fr> <7gur7s$75n$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Trace: /w3Za9FXsasnap/hTrY/9Tfty/GXm7sqcgp+flylx5pZsLkiF+eI+CmR9oCAz7Lo7seRtcC6bkJ5!za9snMNU5++unL91PjQTXNLDHDvglELhqozGqkamQUvw6emLHcEwukYwd0cmgw== Organization: GTE Internetworking, Cambridge, MA X-Copies-To: never NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 16:45:40 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Originator: barmar@bbnplanet.com (Barry Margolin) Date: 1999-05-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7gur7s$75n$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar wrote: >I used to use a Unix based newsreader to access news, but I find the >current thread-based access in DN to be greatly superior to anything >else I have seen. So if you are even a little bit unhappy with your >news access, give DN a try (the price is right, $0, as seems to be >the custom for internet stuff :-) I use trn, which provides a reasonable display of the thread history. I find DejaNews satisfactory for archive searching, but the performance is often too slow for regular newsreading. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@bbnplanet.com GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.