Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: CNEWS MUST DIE! Message-ID: <1991May18.041319.29490@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Sat, 18 May 1991 04:13:19 GMT References: <1991May16.132626.5643@specialix.co.uk> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) writes: >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"? As I said before: fewer screams from your victims. The old C News did indeed deliver all the articles it could, including a good many that caused cardiac arrest or twitching convulsions in other news systems. After a certain amount of jumping up and down by the proprietors of such systems -- including, as I recall, UUNET -- we somewhat reluctantly decided that being good citizens of the network required tightening up standards conformance somewhat. (There are limits to how far we can be moved by those screams. In particular, if it's a legal RFC1036 article causing the problems, our attitude tends to be "gee, that's too bad, why don't you fix your software?".) -- And the bean-counter replied, | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology "beans are more important". | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry