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From: kyle@uunet.UU.NET (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! :-(
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Date: 1 Apr 91 22:44:44 GMT
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In article <27F63B37.CFD@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
 > According to admin@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de:
 > >We don't think it was a good idea to drop a lot of articles due to
 > >a missing space. A lot of information is lost... :-(
 > 
 > Yeah.  Ain't it great?

No, it ain't great.  This change punishes the wrong parties.
It's the people who are running the "correct" software that are
being deprived of information.  I can understand refusing to
parse all the strange date formats out there, but not this
niggling over a space.  C-News knows what's wrong with the
article, but refuses to correct it.  This is quite different from
knowing something is wrong but having no idea how to correct it,
or knowing what is wrong and having no way to correct it.