Re: Hello!

[Paul S. <pa...@wu...>]

On Sat 29 Sep 2018, Peter Trei wrote:

> Is there anybody out there?

I believe there is still quite a number of lurkers on this list.

> I'd like to see about making some mods to make trn play nicer when
> forwarding or quoting messages containing UTF-8 and other 8-bit, multibyte
> encodings. Is there any life in this project?

I haven't seen any updates to the official sources since 2010.
Debian does have one patch from a couple of years later:

  [ Ian Jackson ]
  * Stabilise thread tree by extending date-based partial ordering of
    articles into a complete order using the article number, to ensure that
    parts of the thread tree do not become unreachable (closes: #654771).

 -- Colin Watson <cjw...@de...>  Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:16:18 +0100

Beyond that only packaging changes.

I think that if you can come up with some reasonable patches, Wayne
Davison who last maintained trn would be willing to integrate those.
Wayne nowadays takes care of the rsync project and contributes
regularly, if not often.



Paul