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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News milestone
Message-ID: <=8:6F68@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 14 Nov 90 16:37:56 GMT
References: <1990Nov13.215847.23684@zoo.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1990Nov13.215847.23684@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
> The general patterns in recent times have been fairly consistent.  We
> categorize news systems into B, C, and ?, the last being message-IDs
> which fit no known format.  ? has been growing rapidly, probably as a
> result of more and more inter-network gatewaying;

Probably more because people are getting tired of the C-News message ID
format and are installing programs like "mkid". For example, this message
was posted via C news, but I'm sure the format gets put in '?'.
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