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From: kirk@hplabs.hpl.hp.com (Laura Kirk)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: Re: Important TESTED patch for dxrn/mxrn
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Date: 30 May 91 22:45:23 GMT
References: <1991May30.120936.1009@mccall.com> <1991May30.182405.16917@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991May30.143123.31164@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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In article <1991May30.143123.31164@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>In article <1991May30.182405.16917@mp.cs.niu.edu>,
> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>>   I believe that the intention to be strict was announced about 3 months
>> before the changes were released.
>
>Not in any place that someone not running B or C news would be likely
>to see it.  Announcing a change of this magnitude should have at
>least gone to all of the news.software.* groups and news.admin.

I'm reasonably sure it WAS announced in news.admin:  I saw it, and I don't
read news.software.b (I'm a negligent news admin, I guess :-)

There was a little fuss at the time, but not much.  I guess the full impact
didn't hit people until it happened.

				laura kirk
				kirk@hplabs.hpl.hp.com