Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: c-news: Date: too far in the future??? Message-ID: <1991Mar30.092412.5046@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1991 09:24:12 GMT References: <1991Mar29.151419.8855@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes: >> I had the same problem ... > > That's what I get for responding right away .. it turns out that the > problem is with Dave Alden's relaynews patch ... I would remind everyone using C News of the following condition from our copyright notice: * 3. Altered versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be * misrepresented as being the original software... You use C News on condition that you not misrepresent it. When reporting problems like this, please describe your software as "C News with Dave Alden's modifications", not "C News". We do not stand behind any software not shipped with our distribution, and we find it quite unpleasant to spend time worrying about and investigating what turns out to be somebody else's mistake. We are fussy about quality control; it pleases us immensely when people send mail saying things like "I only wish the vendors we pay money to were half so conscientious". Some of the software people have published for use with C News has been good stuff. Some of it basically works but could use improvements in robustness and response to problems. Some of it, alas, is wretched sludge. We don't officially endorse any of it as part of C News; please be specific about what you run. (We hope to eventually include the better stuff in our distribution, authors permitting, although we've been very busy and our to-be-looked-at pile is large.) -- "The stories one hears about putting up | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 are all true." -D. Harrison| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry