My take on info is that it probably scares away more than a few people since they're expecting it to work like lynx or links. Once you realize that the interface is pretty close but the keys are different, it's really not that bad. At some point in the past I saw a project which provided a lynx-ish interface to info. Perhaps those who are turned off by the stock interface could try that instead.

A quick search on Freshmeat turned up pinfo. It's been a long time, but that sounds like what I found in the past.

Many eggs, few baskets

The situation with savannah is presenting a roadblock in my plans to introduce people to my DVP project. The demonstration client (dvpquery) uses a library called RULI to handle the DNS SRV queries. It works well, but the source lives on savannah.

That means nobody has been able to install it ever since their machines were compromised, and by extension there's no way for them to try dvpquery. I finally punted tonight and put up my copies of the source and even a couple of binary packages to try to break the ice.

This is particularly bad timing, since dvpquery can now generate easily-parsed output. I've written a wrapper for this which runs as a milter, and sendmail on my system is now performing DVP checks on inbound mail. This will also be released shortly to allow other sendmail users to join in. I look forward to seeing similar plugins/modules for other MTAs.