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From: alden@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu (Dave Alden)
Subject: Re: c-news: Date: too far in the future???
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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1991 18:11:41 GMT

In article <1991Mar30.092412.5046@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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".

Oh boy - my name in lights - just what my ma and pa always wanted, they'll
be so proud.  :-)

>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.

Understandable.  I'd like to thank Geoff for his pointer to what the
problem was and I hope the two of you feel better real soon now.  :-)

...dave

ps  For those of you who might be interested in seeing some of the "good
    stuff", or maybe the "works but could use improvements in robustness
    and response to problems" - or maybe it's the "wretched sludge", you
    be the judge.  :-)  Anyway - I've made some patches to relaynews to
    add a new "daemon" mode - this way you only have to start relaynews
    once and it runs forever, watching for new news in the in.coming spool
    directory.  If you're interested the patches can be found on:

    shape.mps.ohio-state.edu[128.146.7.200]:/pub/nntplink/relaynews.daemon.Z

    If you don't have access to the Internet drop me a line and I'll gladly
    mail them to you.