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From: I.G.Batten@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
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Subject: Re: C News patch of 7-Sep-1990
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Date: 18 Sep 90 07:44:20 GMT
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lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair) writes:
> considerable grief due to the (now fixed) inews -C bug and the overly long
> message id's (which broke rn).  This is whether I run C News or 2.11.  The

Right.  Note my message-id.  Joe Zeeff's mkid program takes all of about
ten seconds to install, and the fixes to the header building stuff take
about ten seconds to make.  Compared to the effort involved in
installing C News, I guess that it's about comparable in energy budget
to shifting your weight on your chair.

This is the first I've heard about C news ``breaking'' rn.  I assume
this is a reference to overflowing the References: line...which was
always there.  You might as well argue that using FQDNs in message-ids
is Evil and Rude.

ian