C News patch of 7-Sep-1990

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to lmb at vicom.com (Larry Blair):
>As long as they feel that they need to `sell' the net on their software, and
>as long as it is the defacto standard (which it is becoming), they bear a
>definite responsibility to the rest of the net.

I disagree.  Each Usenet administrator is solely responsible for the
installation and use of Usenet software at his site.  Admins who don't
RTFM are the cause of most trouble with C News.

Every version of news software has its bugs.  No reasonable person
could expect otherwise.  Perhaps you've forgotten the bug in B News
that caused infinite retransmission of articles with certain kinds of
badly formed message IDs?  C News isn't alone in having problems.

Long message IDs may trigger bugs in rn -- but note that the bug is in
the newsreader, not in the transport.  Larry Wall should never have
used fixed-length buffers for any news article header field.  So he
makes mistakes too.  Surprise, surprise.

Geoff Collyer, Henry Spencer and Larry Wall are assets.  Let's treat
them as such.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip at tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>