Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!geoff
From: geoff@zoo.toronto.edu (Geoffrey Collyer)
Subject: Re: news.software.cnews, anyone?
Message-ID: <1990Dec31.232653.1671@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec31.082711.6700@xenitec.on.ca> <3087@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <29992@sequoia.execu.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 90 23:26:53 GMT

Dewey Henize:
>The name was a major factor, I believe, and with the
>use of .cnews instead of .c, there should be little objection.

Henry and I regard the spelling "cnews" as incorrect ("C News" is two
words; "C" is the version of the software), and it appears to be based
solely on the unfortunate historical accident of the filename
"cnews.Z", which has since been corrected to "c-news.Z" (the old one
still works, but is deprecated).  If this is actually going to go to a
vote, I request that the name proposed be "news.software.c-news".
(Better yet would be something generic like "news.software.transport",
but I think we've been over that ground before.)
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Geoff Collyer		utzoo!geoff, zoo.toronto.edu!geoff