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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Comments on C news
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Date: 21 Jun 89 19:38:20 GMT
References: <2228@vicom.COM> <1989Jun20.211939.7835@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989Jun20.211939.7835@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

| >log is broken to the point of worthlessness; I'll stick to 2.11.17+ until
| >I get the time to rewrite the logger.  When I do, I'll post the changes...
| 
| Please don't expect the changes to get into the official release.  We
| really do feel strongly about terse logging.

  I am all for a terse logfile, since I'm always out of disk on most
machines, but while I believe that terse logging should be AVAILABLE,
and probably even the DEFAULT, there are sites which need more
information for debugging or resource allocation.

  I think Cnews philosophy should be clarified here... I assumed that
you released this software because you want it to be useful. If you
don't intend to include any extensions written by other people as part
of the official release, unless you find them useful at your site, it
would be useful to know that now, and perhaps someone will collect all
of the extensions if they're not going to be included in the official
version.

  Cnews looks like a great package (ask me in two days) but it will need
some extensions before it is as useful as B news. With TMNN going
through another major revision phase a lot of us will be using C news
and extending it to meet the needs at our sites.

  I have no problems with the idea of not accepting outside extensions
to your software, but if this becomes widely used it will be getting
extensions and it's desirable to have them organized.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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