Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: too many newsgroups ? Message-ID: <1988May10.182425.2120@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <22040@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <245@prcpto.PRC.SID> <305@syntron.UUCP>, <138@insyte.uucp> Date: Tue, 10 May 88 18:24:25 GMT > I have gathered from reading the news.* groups that 2.11 is the "official" > latest but I have also seen references to version 3.0 and another called > C-News... What's called "official" depends on who's doing the calling, but to sum up briefly: 2.11 is the current version of B news, the most widely-distributed news system. Most anybody should be able to help you get a copy of this. C News is a rewrite of the transport and storage subsystems of B news for greater performance and slightly improved functionality. A preliminary version of it went out to comp.sources.unix some months ago, followed by a few updates posted here. There hasn't been a newer release yet. 3.0 is a rewrite of all of B news, primarily for cleanliness and improved functionality, although the people doing it are paying attention to the things C News has done for improved performance. It has not been released yet. Whether the future lies in C News or 3.0 is a bit unclear just now. -- NASA is to spaceflight as | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology the Post Office is to mail. | {ihnp4,decvax,uunet!mnetor}!utzoo!henry