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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: CNEWS MUST DIE!
Message-ID: <Tii426w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 17 May 91 14:38:28 GMT
References: <1991May16.132626.5643@specialix.co.uk>
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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jpp@specialix.co.uk (John Pettitt) writes:
> 
> Both your upstream feed (ibmpcug) and their upstream feed (specialix.co.uk)
> run CNEWS - if you think that it must go then go find a bnews feed.

...and get my articles thrown away by machines in the US?  Such as, say,
UUNET?  (Are they running the 'upgraded' C News yet?)

> Some people - give them some free software that has taken a lot of man
> hours to write and is a major performance improvment over the prior
> version and all they do is bitch about it.

The old C News delivered all the articles it could. The new one throws lots
away unnecessarily.  In what way is that a "performance improvement"?


mathew