Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: news.software.cnews, anyone?
Message-ID: <1991Jan2.012552.946@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec31.082711.6700@xenitec.on.ca> <3087@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <29992@sequoia.execu.com> <1990Dec31.232653.1671@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 91 01:25:52 GMT

In article <1990Dec31.232653.1671@zoo.toronto.edu> geoff@zoo.toronto.edu (Geoffrey Collyer) writes:
>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" ...

Actually, Geoff and I hold somewhat differing opinions about the best way
of removing the space from "C News"; my enthusiasm for the hyphen is
lukewarm at best, and "cnews.Z" wasn't an accident.  However, I don't
feel strongly enough about the whole issue to fight about it.

I do think I'd prefer to see "news.software.transport".
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry