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From: scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re^n and NN
Message-ID: <3707@itivax.iti.org>
Date: 14 Sep 89 13:08:30 GMT
References: <14665@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Organization: Industrial Technology Institute, Ann Arbor, MI.
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tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:

>The effect is to correct NN's rude behavior without inundating people
>with email or unnecessarily junking articles.

A brief defence of nn:  The author did not know the use was in
violation of the RFC, and almost immediately released a patch to
correct the problem.  Time spent bashing nn would be much more
productively spent bashing the sites that have not applied the
patch.
-- 
Steve Simmons		          scs@vax3.iti.org
Industrial Technology Institute     Ann Arbor, MI.
"Velveeta -- the Spam of Cheeses!" -- Uncle Bonsai