From: MERC::"uunet!ARISIA.dnet.ge.com!AITGW::BULLETIN@ORYANA.PFC.MIT.EDU" 24-NOV-1992 08:30:58.27 To: everhart CC: Subj: BULLETIN Received: by AITGW.DECnet (utk-mail11 v1.5) ; Mon, 23 Nov 92 23:52:03 EST Received: from ORYANA.PFC.MIT.EDU by aitgw.ge.com (5.65/GE Gateway 1.6) id AA00204; Mon, 23 Nov 92 23:51:53 -0500 Message-Id: Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 23:19 EST From: BULLETIN@ORYANA.PFC.MIT.EDU Subject: BULLETIN To: ARISIA::EVERHART X-Envelope-To: EVERHART@ARISIA.DNET.GE.COM X-Vms-To: IN%"EVERHART@ARISIA.DNET.GE.COM" Hi Announcing a new version of BULLETIN. I've been debugging it here for the last few weeks, so hopefuly have mostly debugged it. The address for getting BULLETIN is BULLETIN@ORYANA.PFC.MIT.EDU. Valid commands are: SEND ALL [SINCE time] Sends all bulletin files. If SINCE time specified, only files created since that time will be sent. SEND filename Sends the specified file (only one file per command). DIR Lists available files. BUGS Sends a list of the latest bug fixes. HELP or INFO Sends a brief description of BULLETIN. SUBSCRIBE Subscribes to mailing list for upgrade notifications. UNSUBSCRIBE Unsubscribes from mailing list. Send those commands in either the text of the message, one command per line, or send a single command in the subject header. BULLETIN is also available via ANONYMOUS FTP from PFC.MIT.EDU, but the account is set at low priority, so I suggest using it during non-prime hours. Mark V 2.11 Added SET NEWS command. Used for setting a news group or a class of news groups to be stored on disk for quicker access by users (rather than being read by users directly from the server). Can also disable access to a group. Users can set NOTIFY on stored groups. 11/5/92 NEWS command now by default shows only groups which are active. Can show all groups with /ALL command. /STORED and /COUNT are new qualifiers. 11/5/92 Stored news groups are stored with data compression. Normal folders can also be stored that way if set with the SET COMPRESS command. 11/5/92 INDEX command modified to make it more useful. /NEW is now the default, and now only shows folders or groups that have new messages. /SET added to show only folders which have READNEW, SHOWNEW, or BRIEF set, and /SET is the default. 11/5/92 Fixed bug with BROADCAST routines which could cause BULLCP to go into MWAST state. 11/5/92 Modified code which adds BBOARD messages to speed it up when multiple messages are being added. 11/5/92 Folder names can now be up to 44 letters long. 11/5/92 BULL_BBOARD_UPDATE and BULL_NEWS_UPDATE are now continuously translated by BULLCP so that they can be changed dynamically. 11/5/92 BULLCP now is created with reasonable working quotas rather than PQL_ defaults which are usually way too low. 11/5/92 Changed all variables to be long word multiples in order to be more ALPHA compliant (and maybe faster because of it?). 11/5/92 /ROTATE added for read commands to allow reading messages encoded in ROT-13 coding. This is used by some news groups to display messages which could be taken as being offensive (i.e. rec.humor.funny). 11/5/92 Fixed many minor bugs that no one mentioned, so I won't either. 11/5/92 Fixed ADD/BROADCAST/EDIT not working with TPU. 8/13/92