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In article <ku2B432w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes:
>chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>>    A user who chooses his news software poorly
>>        will get burned, no matter what.
>Unfortunately, those of us who don't happen to run UNIX tend not to have much
>choice about the news software we run.

Although I'm not so sure about VMS or IBM boxes, I thought there was quite
a good selection of MS-DOSn't news software?

>No. Each system administrator chooses the system and software. The user may
>have had nothing whatsoever to do with that (possibly bad) choice, and may be
>powerless to change it. So if you punish users, you will still end up
>punishing the innocent.

True, it is usually the sysadmin who chooses what software is run.
And if it causes articles to be dropped, the users will string him up
if he doesn't fix it.

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