Re: Agent isn't open source.

vallor wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

But all this is moot.  We might as well be discussing the
"one true ice cream".  Different people have different
preferences.  That's what makes Unix so nice: choice.

    https://news.software.readers.narkive.com/N1nrut8v/slrn-using-slrn-to-read-from-multiple-servers

Alternatives are slrnpull and leafnode, but I've never tried them.

--
`Lasu' Releases SAG 0.3 -- Freeware Book Takes Paves For New World Order
by staff writers
...
The central Superhighway site called ``sunsite.unc.edu''
collapsed in the morning before the release.  News about the release had
been leaked by a German hacker group, Harmonious Hardware Hackers, who
had cracked into the author's computer earlier in the week.  They had
got the release date wrong by one day, and caused dozens of eager fans
to connect to the sunsite computer at the wrong time.  ``No computer can
handle that kind of stress,'' explained the mourning sunsite manager,
Erik Troan.  ``The spinning disks made the whole computer jump, and
finally it crashed through the floor to the basement.''  Luckily,
repairs were swift and the computer was working again the same evening.
``Thank God we were able to buy enough needles and thread and patch it
together without major problems.''  The site has also installed a new
throttle on the network pipe, allowing at most four clients at the same
time, thus making a new crash less likely.  ``The book is now in our
Incoming folder'', says Troan, ``and you're all welcome to come and get it.''
-- Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cs.helsinki.fi>
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