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From: lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Supersedes problems with rapid-fire articles
Message-ID: <1989Aug30.052459.1166@vicom.com>
Date: 30 Aug 89 05:24:59 GMT
References: <5200@looking.on.ca>
Reply-To: lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair)
Organization: Vicom Systems Inc., Fremont, CA
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In article <5200@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
=Unfortunately, we got a few complaints.  This is in part due to the fact
=that several sites, including watmath (our main connection) are not
=handling supersedes as yet.   Anybody have any ideas on how many sites
=are running news software that is old enough to not handle supersedes?

Or new enough.  For some reason, Geoff and Henry decided that C News wouldn't
properly handle supercedes.  There is a separate program, called "superkludge"
(in the typical C News sarcastic manner), which tries to clean these up.
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Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb@vicom.com