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From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Am _I_ breaking the new Cnews rules??? (& comment on Henry's post.)
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.012915.23096@panix.uucp>
Date: 20 Jun 91 01:29:15 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.062825.13193@panix.uucp>
Organization: PANIX - Public Access Unix Systems of NY
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Many thanks to Mike Pelletier, Mark Lawrence, Bill Daniels, Per Hedeland,
Dewey Henize, Brendan Kehoe, Ted Lindgreen, and any others whose mail is
en-route to me at this time. It seems I'm getting through fine, regardless
of the quality of my postings. :-)
 
As for Henry's response to my message (oh, thanks to you too, Henry)-
That was the whole idea. A simple script, not official Cnews (and not
interfering with it in any way), run by a few people at a few sites. The
principals of self-interest lead me to conclude that people will fix their
software faster than {lazy,busy,unaware} admins install this script. I'd
do it myself, only I'm living behind a modern Cnews so it wouldn't do any
good for me to install it on this machine.
 
BTW, in a previous message I suggested a small list of sites that could
probably do a good job (assuming they're willing to do it): uunet, mcsun,
and uupsi came to mind immediately. At least in uunet and uupsi's cases, it
would seem to be in their interest to do this.
 
Lastly- I'm obviously a bit confused about the Date: stamp on news messages.
Most people mentioned that my article's Date field had no comma. Well, I just
checked and on the posting machine, it _does_ have a comma. I thought inews
stuck a date on. But how can my messages have no comma then? Is there a Bnews
site out there (or a whole bunch) rewriting my news into an acceptable form?
And are commas in Date headers a Bad Thing, as I seem to remember?
 
(Hm. If so, then the machine that feeds us _isn't_ running the latest patches
after all...)
 
Thanks,
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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
alexis@panix.com
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