Re: uunet as a contact for the LPF smacks of favoritism.

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From: Mike Stump
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 1995 03:48

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In article <19395@comton.airs.com>, Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> wrote:
>hjb@netcom.com (Hwa-Jin Bae) writes:
>The actual case is that Cygnus releases go through a long testing
>process which often puts them behind what is available on the net.
>The software is, one hopes, more stable, but it is not newer.

Even with the exceptions Ian mentioned this is still an
overgeneralization, sometimes, some portions might be newer.  This is
usually an update phenomenon, but sometimes the update phenomenons can
be long lived.

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From: mrs@kithrup.com (Mike Stump)
Subject: Re: uunet as a contact for the LPF smacks of favoritism.
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