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From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
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Subject: Re: C News milestone
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Date: 21 Nov 90 10:18:34 GMT
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In article <1990Nov13.215847.23684@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Anyway, the current milestone is that last weekend (while I was away at
>Windycon, which is why you're just hearing about it now), C passed 1000.
>Undoubtedly the C News site count actually hit four digits quite some
>time ago, since we know of major C News users who seldom post anything to
>the outside world, but it's definite now.

Nice to hear that a lot of people have changed over...

But I'm going to change the Message-ID format soon since it's too long.
I expect a fair proportion of sites will end up doing this.
This will probably break your method of analysis further.

At the moment though, this certainly gives a different picture than a
version control, since generating automatic replys isn't always easy...

However, is there any chance that the patchdate could be included in
the version reply with future versions of Cnews?

The simple 'C' we get now, doesn't give much information really.

Thanks,

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