Xref: utzoo news.software.b:5778 comp.sources.bugs:2557 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!ziggy!screamer!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.sources.bugs Subject: Re: C News patch of 7-Sep-1990 Message-ID: <26F653B1.219A@tct.uucp> Date: 18 Sep 90 17:04:48 GMT References: <1990Sep17.010600.11421@vicom.com> <1990Sep17.121127.25859@ni.umd.edu> <1990Sep17.210150.1586@vicom.com> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 23 According to lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair): >As long as they feel that they need to `sell' the net on their software, and >as long as it is the defacto standard (which it is becoming), they bear a >definite responsibility to the rest of the net. I disagree. Each Usenet administrator is solely responsible for the installation and use of Usenet software at his site. Admins who don't RTFM are the cause of most trouble with C News. Every version of news software has its bugs. No reasonable person could expect otherwise. Perhaps you've forgotten the bug in B News that caused infinite retransmission of articles with certain kinds of badly formed message IDs? C News isn't alone in having problems. Long message IDs may trigger bugs in rn -- but note that the bug is in the newsreader, not in the transport. Larry Wall should never have used fixed-length buffers for any news article header field. So he makes mistakes too. Surprise, surprise. Geoff Collyer, Henry Spencer and Larry Wall are assets. Let's treat them as such. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT ,