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From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: yet another dxrn patch?
Message-ID: <1991May27.145817.23137@ms.uky.edu>
Date: 27 May 91 14:58:17 GMT
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Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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>...it has been suggested to me in email that it would be easier to fix
>C news. The authors and proponents of C news don't consider this a problem,
>they did it on purpose, and as far as I can tell, most of them really don't
>care, since their articles aren't being dropped. The bottom line is that
>they refuse to do anything about this...

No matter what you may think of C-news, its authors, and the people who
run it, the fundamental problem here is that your software is non-compliant.
You have never had the right to expect other sites to process non-conforming
articles; the fact that many used to do so does not mean they must continue
forever.

Each of us is first and foremost responsible for making news run smoothly
at our site.  These changes help me to do that.  There have been real,
serious problems caused by earlier, more lenient versions of C-news;
leaving all that behind is more important than coddling poorly written 
software.
-- 
Kenneth Herron                                            kherron@ms.uky.edu
University of Kentucky                                       +1 606 257 2975
Department of Mathematics       "So this won't be a total loss, can you make
         it so guys get to throw their mothers-in-law in?"  "Sure, why not?"