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From: aipdc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed
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Date: 2 Jun 91 14:32:53 GMT
References: <1991May31.002356.10376@druid.uucp> <10739@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1991Jun1.152224.1293@druid.uucp>
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In article <1991Jun1.152224.1293@druid.uucp> darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>
>Nope.  Just that a workable solution hasn't been found yet and that there
>is no compelling reason for C News to take half measures just because
>there are people who want to write news posting software without reading
>the relevant specifications.

Strange, most of the real world has faced up to the fact that software
contains errors, and good software takes account of the fact.

>>                                                        I note that
>>no-one has commented on Kent Paul Dolan's suggestion, and conclude that
>>no-one really cares whether it's possible or not since it's not
>>desirable.

[list of responses deleted]

>So exactly what do you mean by "no-one has commented on Kent Paul Dolan's
>suggestion?"

My apologies.  At the time I wrote the article, there had been only one
post pointing out problems with his approach.  That post was in
news.admin rather than news.software.b, and so I didn't see it.  I have
now started following both groups, and there seems to be a decent debate
on the subject.

And yes, it does seem that Henry and Geoff are trying to find ways
around the problem.  What gets me is that they're the only people who
seem to recognise that it's a good idea to try to solve it. 

Thankfully, Henry and Geoff are the people writing the software, so
should any of the approaches in the air at the moment be turned to
viable solutions there's a good chance they'll be used.
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