Newsgroups: news.software.b
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From: trp@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Thomas Parker)
Subject: Re: What should go in the References: line?
Message-ID: <19Nov89.535AAE456@b-tech.mi.org>
Reply-To: trp@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Thomas Parker)
Organization: Branch Technology, Ann Arbor, MI
References: <14619@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 89 03:37:51 GMT

>software is badly written.  A competent programmer will have no
>difficulty handling a message tree with only immediate parent
>references.  A competent programmer will realize that this is all he

Even a competent programmer cannot write software to follow a linked 
list where links are missing.  This will be the case for news.