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From: wengland@stephsf.stephsf.com (Bill England)
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Subject: Re: Bogus .UUCP addresses under SCO (TRN TRN TRN !!!)
Message-ID: <374@stephsf.stephsf.com>
Date: 5 Oct 90 19:50:46 GMT
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In article <1990Oct5.001652.17931@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) writes:
>And goes on to recommend cnews and trn.
>
>As I pointed out, SCO had not given him source. I would not accept such
>either, hence my query (still unresolved) as to why SCO was not
>including the source.

   I can see SCO's perspective on providing Binarys.  After all quite 
   a few sites are on the net simply because the binarys were made
   available.  They should ALSO provide a 'developers kit' that contains
   the sources for those files.

   We are, however, lucky that they even provided the binarys ...
>
>I strongly disagree as to the value of a Reply-to: header. NOT ALL
>SITES accept mail at the posting location. Some *try* to, and often
>fail. For example, there's that little outfit that used to install TWX
>machines, what WAS their name? Oh yes: ATT.... ;_]
>
  Sure.  Repy_To: is available if needed.  Most sites do accept e-mail
  though and do not need the Reply_To: Line.  Those sites that do need
  a reply_to need it very badly of course.  ;-)

>I had already pitched 'nn' to the oz chap before asking on the net. We
>don't keep {t,r}rn around here any more since nn is used virtually
>exclusively.

   [nn,trn] tis a matter of choice.  The thing I don;t like about
   trn is that you can't follow threads that span news groups. 
   (Like this thread for instance.)  I have heard  some talk of 
   news group spanning  enhancments to trn though.

   'trn' does have the advantage of compiling under SCO-ODT straight
   out of the box.

   My suggestion to use C News may be a bit premature.   I understand
   that there are some problems with C News file names greater than 14
   chars.  I'm not running C News yet but it is high on my list of 
   software to install. ( I might have to make that OS mod for longer
   file names ... Hmmm.)

>-- 
>A host is a host from coast to coast.....wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu 

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