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From: pst@anise.acc.com (Paul Traina)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Tired of bogus subject lines?
Message-ID: <1989Sep10.064026.19629@anise.acc.com>
Date: 10 Sep 89 06:40:26 GMT
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rsk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rich Kulawiec) writes:
>No, the "jerk(s)" are those folks who coded a flagrant violation of the
>RFC into nn, and those folks that continue to run it in its broken state.

B---shit.  Subject is a user controllable field.  rn(1) is broken because
it uses that field to follow message chains.  It was a kludge to begin with;
there is no responsible way of denying that fact.

Nn did "the wrong thing" according to many people--I don't disagree with you,
but the "blame" (and I use that term loosely) rests entirely on that design
compromise in rn(1).  Before bitching,  why not fix your reader?  Lazy bones.
-- 
Reclaim those words you're afraid of.  There's nothing wrong with being a
pervert and/or slut.  We're very special people.  The best.  Take pride in it.
		-- Hank B. (but I wish I had said it first)