Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!unmvax!uokmax!servalan!ben From: ben@servalan.uucp (Ben Mesander) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: LET'S NAME THE GUILTY POSTING SOFTWARE!!! Message-ID: <1991Jun24.221623.3645@servalan.uucp> Date: 24 Jun 91 22:16:23 GMT References: <2857E736.3519@tct.com> <1991Jun15.194129.25394@vlsi.polymtl.ca> <285E730F.4EC0@tct.com> Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks Lines: 22 In article <285E730F.4EC0@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >According to scoob@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Scoob): >> How about the popular ones (sorry I only know about UNIX ones): >> rn, trn, nn, gnus, gnews, xrn ???? Do they post valid articles? > >Neither rn nor trn guarantees that the article it generates is valid. >However, a C News site will reject an invalid article after it is >submitted by rn or trn. Gee, I'll be sure and patch my CP/M news posting software that I have no source to so that it generates correct dates. Shoot, the darn system doesn't even have a *clock*! Should be an interesting patch. Any of you net.gods want to do it for me? >Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , > "You can call Usenet a democracy if you want to. You can call it a > totalitarian dictatorship run by space aliens and the ghost of Elvis. > It doesn't matter either way." -- Dave Mack C news must die. Elvis runs usenet. Mail to elvis@epmooch.UUCP