Re: The purpose of info-gcc.

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From: Joe Buck
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 1990 20:44

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Chip Rosenthal writes:
>[re: changing gnu.gcc to gnu.announce.gcc]
>Don't do it unless you also plan on making it moderated.  As I just
>posted to gnu.config, there are sites out there which will bounce the
>messages because "announce" is a magic cookie.

Such sites (running 2.10.2 news) should have pressure put on them to
upgrade, since they don't work correctly in the current net environment
in all kinds of ways (they think all groups not beginning with "mod"
and not containing "announce" are unmoderated).  The updated net software
is freely available and not difficult to install.

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Joe Buck
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Subject: Re: The purpose of info-gcc.
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