Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Unofficial Re^n Patch for B News 2.11 Re^n: flaming NN. Message-ID: <6258@ficc.uu.net> Date: 23 Sep 89 14:30:32 GMT References: <14665@bfmny0.UU.NET> <7120@ki4pv.uucp> <1989Sep17.171220.2605@NCoast.ORG> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 12 In article <1989Sep17.171220.2605@NCoast.ORG>, allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: > [the] lines in question are in violation of RFC1050. Are you claiming that we > should not enforce it? Yes. Remember: "Be strict about what you generate, be liberal about what you accept". It's just as true for news transport agents as for TCPIP broadcast addresses. -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "BORED OF THE RINGS was written by Sir James Burton, the famous actor. It was published by the Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth." - Tim Maroney