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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: <a4Nq417w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 18 Jun 91 13:17:09 GMT
References: <285CA8D6.273B@tct.com>
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> According to mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*):
> >For six months, [C News] was failing to transfer news articles I posted.
> >Smoothly and efficiently don't even enter into it, it was simply failing in
> >its purpose.
> 
> Its purpose is to transmit *correct* articles.  It succeeds.

No, the purpose of the news transport software is to correctly transmit the
news articles which it receives.

C News failed in that purpose.


mathew