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From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: BITFTP
Message-ID: <1991May26.122417.4210@druid.uucp>
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
References: <1991May25.202516.12961@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: Sun, 26 May 91 12:24:17 GMT

In article <1991May25.202516.12961@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Kent Paul Dolan writes:
>every UUCP site with limited disk space, news (and
>perhaps mail; how would one know?) being dropped on
>the floor regularly because the transfer protocol
>hasn't the sense to say "full up, hold the rest for
>later". That's as broken as broken software can get,

Your cure is worse.  If someone downstream from me snags
gcc and X and only has a 20 Meg DOS system then that stuff
(assuming *I* have room for it) sits on my machine forever
blocking stuff for everyone on my system and my other
downstreams.  I have to be able to drop undeliverable stuff.
Why should everyone else suffer because of one bozo?

>The solution would have to be like Henry's; install
>a new uucico that is _deliberately_ incompatible
>with the old one, and bring it up (after suitable

Huh?  Cnews is deliberately *compatible* with the RFCs.
That's what some are whining about - that their own
software can't go on being incompatible.

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