Xref: utzoo news.admin:15371 news.software.b:8348 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew 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? Message-ID: Date: 19 Jun 91 13:05:58 GMT References: <1991Jun18.134239.2991@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 27 rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: > In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *H > >I know it must be hard for you to understand, but sometimes when people writ > >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. For the nth time: I AM NOT DEFENDING FAULTY SOFTWARE. I AM MERELY RECOGNIZING THAT IT EXISTS AND WILL CONTINUE TO EXIST. I don't expect C News to be bugless. However, I also do not expect it to rely on all other posting software being faultless -- which it seems to at the moment. mathew