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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.misc
Subject: Re: 3.0 news -- clearing up confusion
Message-ID: <2004@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 88 03:22:53 GMT
References: <223494f9:190e@snark.UUCP> <4299@b-tech.UUCP> <507@fig.bbn.com>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <507@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>RN won't work.  No matter how good the 3.0 newsreader is, and no matter
>how close it comes to providing the features, it won't be RN.  For many
>people, myself included, this will be a killing blow.  I hope this gets
>fixed before this news system gets released.

The answer, of course, is to put back in the DOXREFS patch as a
configurable option.  The authors of 3.0 news basically have three
choices --

a) support the Xref:  header, even though it's "wrong", or
b) not complain too much when official patch #1 puts it in, or
c) watch while twenty different buggy versions appear on the net,
   everyone does their own patch, and the software can no longer be
   centrally administered because everybody has slightly different
   code.

I'm sure Eric will produce a marvelous newsreader.  But tens of
thousands of us know and love rn.  Don't break it.



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