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From: coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C news penetration
Summary: Not quite accurate
Message-ID: <1989Oct12.165913.18364@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 12 Oct 89 16:59:13 GMT
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nelson@IMAGE.SOE.CLARKSON.EDU (Russ Nelson) writes:
>[article without Lines: header, path:]
>image.soe.clarkson.edu!rpi!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm!maine.bitnet

>The implication is that all these sites are running C news, or some other
>news software that doesn't write Lines: headers.

Actually, that's not right. Neither B nor C news actually adds on Lines:
headers as far as I know. Lines: is intended to be generated at posting
time by inews & friends. C news, by default, doesn't generate Lines: at
inews-time (of course, I and many others have patched C news' inews to
generate Lines:, and I wish creation was the default. I also wish news
clients and nntp were smarter and didn't need it at all, but...). Once
the article is created, though, both B and C will pass it on as written
(wrt Lines:). Neither one will either delete or add Lines: headers.

I'm not sure what rpi is running (they haven't responded to my 'version'
control yet). I (brutus.cs.uiuc.edu) and psuvax1 are running C. I really
doubt either psuvm or cunyvm is running C, since they're VM machines and
I don't think C has been ported to those yet :-). I'm not sure what
maine.bitnet is, but it's probably either VM (most likely) or VMS (second
most likely), since there are precious few unix machines on BITNet.

--John

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