Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: CNEWS MUST DIE! Message-ID: Date: 23 May 91 14:34:19 GMT References: <1991May22.115203.28923@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 36 randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes: > In article <4iTa324w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) > > I'm asking that correctable errors be corrected, so that > >the human beings who post news articles do not have to go through the header > >which they have just edited, character by character, making sure that there > >not a mistake. > > I take it you don't program. Ha! One of the programs I wrote some months ago is an Expire program, currently used by several Waffle sites. One of the things it has to do is parse dates in Expires: fields. Guess what it does if it can't parse the date? (I'll give you a clue: it doesn't throw the article away, like C News does.) > When you write software, or use > other's software to post your perls to a world wide audience, > you had BETTER make sure there is not a mistake. Really? How many formally correct news software packages do you know of? > Or do you blame > the auto manufacture when his car dies because you played around > with the F.I. system? Do you discard the entire car when one of the tires is bald? In fact, do owners of motorways inspect your car before letting you use their road, and destroy your car entirely if the wing mirror is badly adjusted? mathew