Xref: utzoo news.admin:14895 news.software.b:8111 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: Date: 3 Jun 91 15:43:18 GMT References: <1991May31.171651@mccall.com> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 25 tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) writes: > However, as I've said, I have no problem with the transition to official > standards, just the way it was accomplished. I do firmly agree that all > software that generates non-compliant headers should be fixed. I disagree > that a reasonable and effective way to accomplish that is to simply ignore > all news from sites that run such software, without bothering to tell them > about it. This is my position as well. > On the other hand, I've said that I don't know how many times, and the > responses are generally on another tangent, so I give up. I have no plans to give up, because (a) I believe that C News's current behaviour is damaging to the people who use Usenet, and (b) I'm exceptionally stubborn when fighting things which I genuinely believe to be wrong. By the latter I mean that those who want me to shut up about this issue will have to convince me that C News's behaviour is correct; I won't just give up. mathew [ You have been warned :-) ]