Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C news: expire, and batcher
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.170424.20091@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <26817@usc.edu> <1990Aug27.172424.18636@zoo.toronto.edu> <26827@usc.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 90 17:04:24 GMT

In article <26827@usc.edu> blarson@dianne.usc.edu (bob larson) writes:
>It's a change to batcher.c, and the only clever part about it is noting
>that C news puts the Xref: line first.  If the first 6 characters of
>the file are "Xref: " the portion before the first newline is not put
>in the batch...

Hmm.  That's a reasonable approach, indeed about the only reasonable one.
I am still reluctant to incorporate even a modest lump of code to deal
with a requirement that (a) every other news system ignores, and (b) we
think should be dealt with by fixing the specs.  Are there really many
people troubled by this?
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