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From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Behaviour of newly created newsgroups
Summary: Subsystem interfaces incompatible
Message-ID: <1526@stl.stc.co.uk>
Date: 22 Jul 89 08:54:14 GMT
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In article <55809@uunet.UU.NET> rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) writes:
#In article <1473@stl.stc.co.uk> dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) wrote:
#> The proper fix is for rn to treat a non-existant directory in the same way
#> as a real one with no articles in it.   Also, inews should create 
#> the directory anyway, just in case the site has an unfixed rn.
#
#The fact that inews does not create the directory is a feature.

The problem is that Larry considered rn's behaviour to be a feature too.
We had this discussion 2 years ago, but nothing came of it.

These two basic bits of news software are incompatible in regard to new
group creation, and have been so for several years.  
I wish the news guru's could agree on the small change to fix this, 
and include it in the next patch to one or both.

Regards,        "None shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity"
        David Wright           STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex  CM17 9NA, UK
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