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From: salkind
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 1984 22:29

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Nf-From: cmcl2!salkind    Apr 19 17:29:00 1984


Several notes sites are now running a different B-news output routine.
This version generates both "hidden" B-news notes headers and
information in the text of the article.

I consider this to be very bad form.  The whole point in using the
hidden headers was to spare readnews users of seeing the two "garbage"
notes lines at the beginning of the article.  By putting the notes-specific
information in both locations, though, readnews readers still see the
notes lines.

Things gets worse, though.  My implementation of bnewsinput sees the hidden
header lines, so it then posts the body of the article to the notes system
untouched.  Therefore our notes readers are seeing the extra lines also!
I could change bnewsinput, but I don't think I should have to.

Clearly, the notes-news interface was misdesigned originally.  Now we have
a chance to clean it up -- let's do it!

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From: salkind@cmcl2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.notes
Subject: notes/B news interface
Message-ID: <22400001@cmcl2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Apr-84 17:29:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 19 17:29:00 1984
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Organization: New York University
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