Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 13:30:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>
To: "mason-devel -- Deliduka, Bennet -- Bennet Deliduka" <bennet@together.net>,
Subject: Mason 0.13.0 pre-announcement

Good day, all,
	Mason 0.13.0 is getting close to release!
	I've been working with a small group to get Mason 0.13.0 ready for
a number of months now.  The code is back to a stable state and has a
_bunch_ of new features and improvements (performance, masquerading, new
protocols, new output format, fixes, sorting firewall by packet counts,
Jens' new front-end... see the web site), but needs more testing before I
can release it.  That's where you come in... *smile*
	I'd love to hear some more feedback on the new version - praise
and punishment gratefully accepted!  Once I've merged some more changes
for debian packaging, and cleaned up the remaining problems ("Bugs? What
bugs?" *smile*) this will head out to the announce lists. I'd like it to
be rock solid by then.  That means it needs to be rock solid on more than
the few systems I have available to me.
	I'd especially like to hear back from users with distributions
other than RedHat 5.2/6.0 or architectures other than ix86 where I've done
most of my development. I'd like to include a list of distributions where
Mason has been known to work in the documentation.
	Many thanks for all your mail and suggestions.  If I've failed to
incorporate something you think is important, let me know.  Special thanks
to Rusty, Chris Brenton, Jeff Licquia, and Jens Knudsen for their special
contributions.
	The current version can be downloaded from
http://www.pobox.com/~wstearns/mason/
	Cheers,
	- Bill

P.S. I included you in the mason-friends mailing list because you've
expressed some interest in Mason in the past.  If you'd prefer not to be
part of this list or would like me to use a different email address, let
me know. Future mailings should be very infrequent and normally just
announcements of new versions.

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