Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Comments on C news
Message-ID: <1989Jun22.175019.10579@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <2228@vicom.COM> <1989Jun20.211939.7835@utzoo.uucp> <940@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 17:50:19 GMT

In article <940@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  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...

We already include things that are useless to us and (in our opinion) very
nearly useless to anybody.  We do not reject outside contributions out of
hand.  We do, however, reserve the right to be selective, given our intense
dislike for the feature-of-the-month club.  Chatty log files are one thing
we thoroughly loathe, on the grounds that they are very seldom useful enough
to pay for themselves.
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