Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Article Classification is the key to solving USENET problems.
Message-ID: <3239@looking.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 03:21:56 GMT
References: <3222@looking.UUCP> <3233@looking.UUCP> <8376@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <8376@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> vnend@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James) writes:
>
>	Let me get this straight.  Are you saying that since USENET doesn't
>work the way Brad Templeton wants it to, and because you have spent so much
>of your own time writing something that you think makes reading news easier
>for you, that the *entire net* should modify its software to conform to your
>software?  And even to the point of suggesting (in the posting about
>'broken' reference lines) that any site that broke a reference line (broken
>being your own definition) be cut off from the net?  Brad, your chutzpa
>amazes me.

You do not have it straight.  I am suggesting, and have never done anything
more than suggest, that the more information the newsreader can tell about
the article, the better, and that we should strive in that direction, and
to help in striving in that direction, I am going to give away some software.

This is chutzpa?  I have never done anything but suggest, and never suggested
that anybody's net activity be dictated -- except when it comes to defining
the format of news articles.  Quite the reverse, as you may remember -- I'm
the one that some other people want to dictate to, for some reason. :-(

To clarify one point, I did overemphasize that the header should contain
information about the poster.  I meant to say 'posting', so don't get your
shorts in a knot.   In fact, what I would like to see is a combination
of information, with a little reasonable information about the poster and
lots about the posting.

>	I'm afraid to ask, but in truth am only interested to see what it 
>tells us about you.

Why is it that you can't post anything on this net, even in news.admin
(which is supposed to contain more experienced netters) without immediate
rounds of personal attack and the questioning of people's motives?  Sheesh!
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473