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From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm
Subject: Re: Line eater again (mod.comp-soc)?
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Date: Thu, 3-Jul-86 10:12:22 EDT
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While I can claim to be the most rabid anti-notes admin on the net,
let me point out that notes does very well at what it was intended to
do, and that the author, Ray Essick, is a reasonable guy.  He's even
a smart guy (one of my highest compliments).  The problem lies in the
notes to news interface.  Just as we were bitten by the line-eater
having been included on the 4.2bsd tape, the notes folks were bitten
by the obsolete A-news interface being included on that same tape.
There is a more modern B-news interface that works well, but as long
as there are 4.2 tapes out there, we will be plagued by the line-eater
and by orphaned responses.