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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Time for 8 bit news, isn't it?????.
Message-ID: <1990Jul22.085726.22462@looking.on.ca>
Date: 22 Jul 90 08:57:26 GMT
References: <777@hades.ausonics.oz.au> <15688@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1990Jul21.054016.10409@looking.on.ca> <3722@auspex.auspex.com>
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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I did not mean that there was no software to use References lines, I have
some myself.

I meant that the chains are broken far too often.  About 6% of followups
have no references line, and that results in broken chains on about
40% of usenet messages (every followup to such a followup is broken as
well.)

So you can't use it like you should.

As for supersedes, it works in limited cases, but try *really* using it
like I did and you will find a lot of sites don't run it at all, and that
there's a bug in the *design* of supersedes, such that it breaks with
batching.   (Try superseding twice, close enough that they are both in
the same news batch)

Like I said, these are the last 2 additions, from 5 years ago, and they
still do not work today.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473