Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utstat!geoff
From: geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer)
Subject: Re: Lines: yet again (Re: Supersedes problems with rapid-fire articles)
Message-ID: <1989Sep1.003543.16998@utstat.uucp>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto
References: <1989Aug31.035929.2430@utstat.uucp> <14612@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 89 00:35:43 GMT

Agreed that RFC 1036 is a specification, but RFCs (or other
specifications) do sometimes contain errors, and it is unwise to
blindly implement an erroneous specification.  Believe me, we
implemented quite a few things required by RFC 1036 even though we
dislike them (e.g. ihave/sendme); our classification of a few parts of
RFC 1036 as errors was not inspired by our like or dislike of those
parts.

To refute a popular misconception, we are not trying to convince
everyone to run C news.  We find C news useful and hope that some
others will too.  Some people will find that it doesn't suit their
needs and they should not run it.
-- 
Geoff Collyer		utzoo!utstat!geoff, geoff@utstat.toronto.edu