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From: sfreed@tesla.unm.edu (Steve Freed)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Unofficial Re^n Patch for B News 2.11
Message-ID: <526@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 17 Sep 89 19:08:05 GMT
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coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) writes:

>If the subject line is
>not RFC compliant (and it really isn't, since Re: isn't used to lead the
>Subject: line), sending mail to the sender is probably the Right Thing
>to do, since they definitely have broken software.

No, this is NOT the thing to do. They are USING old software and in 99.9%
of the cases they have nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with it. We
have about 15,000 users here, and there is only about 5 people here
who could update it, and only one, myself, who knows anything about
it. (nn) If you are going to write anybody, then write the systems
administrator or at least someone who can actually do something
about it. The poor user will probably have no idea what you are talking
about.


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Steve.                sfreed@ariel.unm.edu