Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!fts1!michael
From: michael@fts1.uucp (Michael Richardson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Upgrading Usenet (was Re: Who pays the bill?)
Message-ID: <1990Aug14.181725.9003@fts1.uucp>
Date: 14 Aug 90 18:17:25 GMT
References: <1990Aug04.171540.29439@looking.on.ca> <26BCDA30.21C@intercon.com> <1990Aug7.180710.3872@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1990Aug7.180710.3872@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <26BCDA30.21C@intercon.com> amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
>Actually C News isn't doing too badly; based on analysis of message-IDs
>in our history file, C News is running at 600+ sites, about 12% of the

>sites generating weird message-IDs that aren't obviously either B or C.

  Hmm. UUPC and AmigaUUCP variants perhaps?
  Actually, I think most AmigaUUCP's would get counted as BNews.

>It would probably be somewhat faster if we were sysadmin-compatible
>with B News, because learning new procedures increases the conversion
>effort.  This bodes ill for any change that involves incompatibility
>of a more serious kind.  Yes, a lot of this is sheer inertia, as

  Well, I found the C news batching system slightly incomprehensible,
or maybe I couldn't figure out how to do what I wanted... I stuck
to 'nbatcher' which I understand quite well.  So I'm sort of C news
with B+ News (given than nbatcher enhanced B news' sendbatches )
  Do the C News batchers strip the 'Xref' or is the receiving system
supposed to strip it (if it were a C News system, it would obviously
do so). Not really a problem, my downfeed's just found it a little
strange..
  
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