Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!visix!amanda From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: (C News) limit filesize and inews Message-ID: Date: 8 Jan 91 00:12:36 GMT References: <3464@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1991Jan7.182907.13583@zoo.toronto.edu> <3480@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 22 In article <3480@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes: >Just for fun, let's eliminate the "Get the OS fixed" answer. >For even more fun, let's eliminate "change the system wide parameters" >answer, too. >Now, what's the answer? Maybe there isn't one. Maybe that machine can't run C News in its current state. So? This does not necessarily constitute a crisis on Henry and Geoff's part, even if it does on the part of the owner of the machine in question. "Get your machine fixed or get a new machine." is a valid answer. It may not be a *desirable* answer to some people, but it is certainly a *valid* one. -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda -- "Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a sheet of paper until drops of blood appear on your forehead." -- Gene Fowler