Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: warning to all sinners in regard to current C News patches Message-ID: Date: 28 Mar 91 18:10:00 GMT References: <1991Mar24.035259.20738@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Mar28.165127.13687@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: guardian.cs.psu.edu >"Be liberal about what you receive, conservative about what you generate" The latest C News complies with this dictum by dropping malformed articles. B news complies by liberally rewriting all articles it receives, since each article, whether posted or not, gets run through the same machinery. This behavior has caused a number of problems, such as duplicate articles, both harmless and painful. Right now, there's a complaint that some B News site is re-feeding fj.* with damaged articles (missing ESC characters). -- Felix Lee flee@cs.psu.edu