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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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Subject: Re: B-news vs. C-news (WAS: Really funny jokes being missed)
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Date: 5 Jun 91 10:57:09 GMT
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In article <1087@wshb.csms.com> michaelb@wshb.csms.com ( WSHB Operations Eng) writes:
>                                                              Now someone
>raises the ugly spector that possibly all of the articles from my company
>are falling on the floor as soon as they reach uunet, which now runs C-news.
>Is it time to switch? Can anyone hear me? Is someone going to fix C-news?

Well, Henry and Geoff may have their own preferences on this, but it is
manifestly not in UUNET's interest to start dropping articles en mass
because of an extra comma in an eminently readable date header.  I would
hope that THEY, at least, would implement the necessary patches.  And,
perhaps, exert some influence on the Cnews priesthood.

This is what happens when "be generous in what you accept, and
conservative in what you generate" is disobeyed.