Xref: utzoo news.admin:15319 news.software.b:8315 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!pacbell.com!att!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Possible solution to C news dropping articles? Message-ID: <1991Jun18.134239.2991@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 18 Jun 91 13:42:39 GMT References: <1XS{4|-@warwick.ac.uk> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 19 In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes: >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. Time to stop the debate. We have come full circle. As I recall, this is a paraphrase of one the early comments to Mathew, telling him his criticism of C news was unreasonable. Now we see Mathew, while continuing to criticize C news, adopting the same argument to defend his news software against the backlash criticism it is receiving for generating bad articles in the first place. The more things change, the more they stay the same. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940