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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?
Message-ID: <aZis413w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 19 Jun 91 13:21:57 GMT
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Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson) writes:
> In article <BXwo41w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *H
> [on broken posting software -> anu-news]
> >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.
> 
> So why should the vast majority of the net suffer for a very small
> minority that's running bug infested software?

Because all we're asking you to do is propogate errors via a Usenet
newsgroup.  That's hardly a terrible imposition to suffer, and it will (a)
help to track down buggy software and fix it, (b) help as a means of
reporting problems such as dodgy gateways and huge articles, and (c) prevent
users stuck with bad software from being victimised unfairly.


mathew