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From: rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C news lets outside control messages create groups
Message-ID: <1989Jul10.195611.9665@pcrat.uucp>
Date: 10 Jul 89 19:56:11 GMT
References: <1989Jul9.032048.3850@utstat.uucp> <1989Jul10.065222.29333@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <1989Jul10.065222.29333@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes:
>
>After looking at the shell scripts (which I don't want to change myself
>for fear of being incompatible with future versions of Cnews), I see
>it's indeed impossible via any flag setting to accomplish what I want
>to above.

This is a valid argument, IMHO.  I hacked the scripts a little bit
to get C news to run, and now I'm afraid to apply the latest patch
for fear of breaking whatever it was that I had to change.  I don't
know if there is an (easy) general solution to this problem of local
customizations and patches conflicting, but it seems to me that
the most obvious ones ought to be taken care of at configuration
time.

The two important options (to me, at least) not handled at configuration
time are auto/manual create/remove groups, and immediate/deferred
input processing.  The use of DBZ was another, but that's supposed
to be standard next time around.

BTW, C news wasn't any panacea here, even with DBZ.  It only forced
me to discover that our bottleneck was uncompress.  It *does* seem
more manageable, though, than B news.

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