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From: nagel@ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Supersedes problems with rapid-fire articles
Message-ID: <1989Aug30.204324.2675@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 30 Aug 89 20:43:24 GMT
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lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair) writes:

>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.

Speaking of gratuitous "wholely user invisible/only sysadmin
visible" changes made in C news, has anyone out there modified C
news to properly handle the Lines header?  I know about the kludge
you can do in the inews script, but, unfortunately, that's not the
only place news may enter the system, at least here.  I believe it
belongs in relaynews, or possibly newsspool.  Clearly, Henry and
Geoff have decided to ignore the fact that this is a de facto
standard even if it doesn't appear in the cherished RFC, so if
anyone out there has an unofficial patch and or ideas on where this
function should go in the system, please let me know.  Or post it --
I believe most people on the net would like their lines headers back
again.
--
Mark Nagel
UC Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science
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