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From: steve@nshore.uucp (Stephen Walick)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News patch dating
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.180211.15313@nshore.uucp>
Date: 24 Sep 90 18:02:11 GMT
References: <1990Sep18.222450.25228@zoo.toronto.edu> <26FA3C1B.5BB@tct.uucp> <1990Sep23.210012.172@NCoast.ORG>
Reply-To: steve@nshore (Stephen Walick)
Followup-To: news.software.b
Organization: Nshore Hacking and Salvage
Lines: 37

As quoted from <1990Sep23.210012.172@NCoast.ORG> by allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR):

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| As quoted from <26FA3C1B.5BB@tct.uucp> by chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg):
| +---------------
| | Unfortunately, however, the abusers have apparently gotten Henry's
| | goat.  To wit:
| | 
| | According to henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer):
| | >People who moan that they can't tell which old patches they
| | >need don't seem to ever have *looked* at one of our patches.
| +---------------
| 
| It's not so much not knowing which ones you missed, as knowing *in a timely
| manner* which ones you missed....  [ heavily edited ]
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Reading this article after the one to which I had posted a follow-up,
I compliment you for your comments on the subject.  Postings in this
news group have boardered on the bazar, whereas yours is very much to
the point, and I publically commend you for that.

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| In this particular case, Steve Walick had already requested the patches
| from Henry for his private system, so I got him to mail them to me....
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Lest there be any confusion on this point, in a message reply from Henry
Spencer to myself, he had given me the site from which I could 'uucp'
obtain the Cnews patches, viz., osu-cis, and stated that he would rather
*not* establish a precedent of personally sending the Cnews patches out
because of other committments that he presently has.

-- 

Stephen J. Walick, Asst Sysop of the  < XBBS >  program  at  NCoast.ORG
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