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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Possible solution to C news dropping articles?
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Date: 17 Jun 91 14:32:46 GMT
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cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson) writes:
> In article <9oND43w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *H
> >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'
> >going to help people running new software.
> 
> But why would anybody release NEW software that didn't follow the RFCs?

Why don't you ask in news.software.anu-news?

I know it must be hard for you to understand, but sometimes when people write
software in their own spare time and release it for free, they don't spend
long enough testing it to remove every single bug.


mathew