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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: Re: new survey to supplement arbitron. Please run this program.
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Date: 20 May 89 01:17:23 GMT
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Joe,
   It's been my experience that there's too much variation in history file
formats out there for programs based on the history file to be very
universal. Also I claim it is not an error to doublecount a crossposted
message. Also perl is not universal, though it is certainly nice. If anybody
is willing to massage that perl script into a format that my automated
processing programs can use, I'd be happy, but I don't want to encourage
people to run software that takes advantage of undocumented features of the
news sytem (e.g. the history file format). That will make it much more
difficult to make future changes to that format.

Brian