News scheme history at FNAL

# News schemes

Art Kreymer gave me a run-down on news schemes which have been and/or are in use at FNAL.

BULLETIN
  From around 1980, bulletin (with HISTORY and TELL commands) was an early scheme, still used by OLS.
NOTIFY
  From the decus tape, without sources, notify had functionality of displaying things once/once a day/ evry time you log in etc. Used until recently on the central VMS vax.
NEWS
  Something written by Art Kreymer, to have NOTIFY funtionality with some improvements. Used VMS/MAIL as the browser.
D0NEWS
  The successful program from D0 taken to become ALEPHNEWS and the NEWS program used on the central CERN vaxes, supported at CERN by Olivier Callot. A VMS/MAIL-like interface. Principle VMS system news communication tool.
Info
  (note mixed case.) A unix command from the creators of "bulletin". In use for unix system news.
VAX/NOTES
  On the central VMS machines, the main discussion tool.

Of these systems, Art felt that a W3 gateway for the D0news information would be a first priority. (Who will write it?)