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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Just how useful is crossposting?
Message-ID: <49813@looking.on.ca>
Date: 19 Nov 89 07:55:59 GMT
References: <48887@looking.on.ca> <1989Nov18.191428.3783@NCoast.ORG>
Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <1989Nov18.191428.3783@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>Consider the hack a band-aid:  it's necessary now, but who wears a band-aid
>for their entire lifetime?

USENET does, that's who!  There are people running software from the late
'50s out there, it sometimes seems.

I don't mind so much if you muck up your own articles and break the chain.
When you muck the references line, you put a broken chain into
every followup to your article.  It's the worst kind of problem because
it multiplies on the net.  Each ref-breaker causes a whole new thread.


Would it be that hard to hack rn's interpreter for the ref line, so that
when it's really long, it deletes from the middle rather than overflowing
the buffer?
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473