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From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Lines: yet again (Re: Supersedes problems with rapid-fire articles)
Message-ID: <14612@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 89 13:37:45 GMT
References: <1989Aug31.035929.2430@utstat.uucp>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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In article <1989Aug31.035929.2430@utstat.uucp> geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer) writes:
>	The behaviour of B news (or C news or A news or notes or NNTP)
>	is not a specification for news software, especially not for
>	message format.

By the same token: RFC 1036 *is* a specification, not just a few
interesting ideas on a dinner napkin to be picked and chosen from at
whim, with the parts one doesn't like relegated to an "rfcerrata"
<chuckle> file.  "We regard this and that as an error in the RFC" is not
the most useful attitude one could imagine from the authors of something
like C news, which aspires to broad acceptance itself.  It might be more
seemly to concentrate on the "Cnewserrata" file for now. :-)
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