Rn ambiguity.

[Anthony V. Discolo]

I just received this via mail from
sdcrdcf!RDCF.SDC.UUCP!lwall at 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.
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