NancyLebovitz comments on Spring 2010 Meta Thread - Less Wrong

3 Post author: FAWS 11 March 2010 10:27AM

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Comment author: RobinZ 20 March 2010 07:31:02PM *  1 point [-]

Can you write up a précis on the nature of slrn and trn for the benefit of the post-September crowd? Edit: I think it might be difficult to appreciate the suggestion not knowing how it will work.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 21 March 2010 03:12:07PM 0 points [-]

Thank you for asking. I've been complaining about how much better trn was for years (and, more recently, saying that JavaScript would make browser-based trn possible), and no one had ever asked for the details.

Comment author: RobinZ 21 March 2010 04:00:41PM 1 point [-]

My brother rediscovered USENET not long ago, and had been much impressed, so...