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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Amgia World Ray-tracing article...
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Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 11:38:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Apr 29 11:38:57 1987
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Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
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In article <725@puff.WISC.EDU> upl@puff.WISC.EDU (Future Unix Gurus) writes:
...
$ Jeff Kesselman
$ captain@uhura.cs.wisc.edu
$ 
$ [The following is for the ravenous short-message-eater of rn!]
$ .
$ .
$ .
$ .
$ .
$ .
$ [JC on a bicycle! I HATE using up transmission bandwidth just to make RN
$ happy. This is DEFINATELY a non-feature!]

Please don't malign rn for a "bug" in inews.  In fact, rn will help you get
around the inews problem if you just use the -F switch to set something other
than '>' as your line-quoting character.  Inews is the delivery program that
rn uses to post news.  Blaming rn for inews's problems is like blaming cp when
/usr runs out of space.  No, it's worse than that.  It's like blaming George
Washington for the John Walker spy ring.  Rn was written and distributed long
before this "feature" was added to inews.

Note also that rn/Pnews go to some length to keep your .article file around
so even if inews screws up you don't loose all your typing.  Just be sure
to rename it to something else before you try reposting.

Somewhat miffedly, or at least sniffedly, yours,
Larry Wall
{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall

P.S. I know this doesn't have anything to do with Amigas, but at least I own
one, so I'm not altogether an ogre.  I've been trying to correct the above
misconception by mail to the offenders, but it hasn't been working.