Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!nuchat!moray!splut!jay From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: C news canonsys.awk can exceed static awk limits Message-ID: Date: 21 Feb 90 12:33:41 GMT References: <1990Feb18.132237.6360@is.uu.no> <1990Feb19.191324.9367@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 17 In article <1990Feb19.191324.9367@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >The checkgroups stuff needs a wholesale rewrite anyway. >Actually, what it needs first is a precise specification, but that's a >different kettle of worms... While you're at it, how about making it only produce messages for those hierarchies that are mentioned in the message? I'm not going to rmgroup news.announce.important because a vmsnet checkgroups told me to...but the checkgroups that the vmsnet guru send out regularly (which only mentions vmsnet.*) produces an email message saying that everything in all of the other hierarchies is bad. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jay@splut.conmicro.com (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity. {attctc,bellcore}!texbell!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- Free the DC-10!