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From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
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Subject: Re: Possible solution to C news dropping articles?
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Date: 14 Jun 91 09:39:44 GMT
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In article <9oND43w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes:
>cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson) writes:
>> The issue here is user education and/or fixes to Pnews.
>And then what happens when the next piece of similar software comes along?
>Even if you can get all existing net software fixed to be perfect at
>detecting errors before sending out articles -- which you can't -- that isn't
>going to help people running new software.

But why would anybody release NEW software that didn't follow the RFCs?



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