Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!mcr
From: mcr@Sandelman.OCUnix.on.ca (Michael Richardson)
Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! : -(
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.180152.5170@Sandelman.OCUnix.on.ca>
Organization: Sandelman Software Works, Debugging Department, Ottawa, ON
References: <1991Apr04.221130.19697@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <1991Apr4.231602.17306@world.std.com> <50613@olivea.atc.olivetti.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1991 18:01:52 GMT

In article <50613@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> jerry@olivey.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Jerry Aguirre) writes:
>Darn if he isn't right.  I just verified this by hand editing an article
>to get rid of a few of the spaces and passing it to rnews (B 2.11.19).
>Sure enough it gave the message "inews: Inbound news is garbled".  The
>article was no where to be found.  No mail to the poster.  Zip!

  Hmm. This might explain the problems that a downstream B News site
was having a while ago. (And continues to have now and then)
  The difference is that the site tends to fill /usr/lib/news with a
never-ending log file...

>If Henry and Geoff had made it clear that they were not only making C
>news follow the spec. but were making it more backward compatible then
>they would have gotten a lot less flak.

  Agreed.


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