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In article <T6mR328w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) writes:
>rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>> ...we are tired at your continued attempts to
>> harrass the totally innocent designers of Cnews, and the totally innocent
>> sysadmins who have made an honest and considered judgement to use Cnews.
>
>But C News is the program which is meting out the punishment!
>
>Or is it "only following orders", as the famous saying goes?

Perhaps "taking out the garbage" is a more apt term. Or "separating the chaff
from the wheat".

Mathew: it is not the job of C News to de-louse every bad header it sees, nor
to yak-yak to humans about the sad state of posting software. It's purpose is
to transfer news to and from disks and networks as smoothly and efficiently as 
possible.

C NEWS IS A NEWS *TRANSPORT*, NOT A NEWS *SCHOOLMARM*!!

Given the obvious advantages and increasing popularity of C News over other 
news transports, and the fact that it follows the RFC in this regard, I 
consider it perfectly reasonable to expect sites with broken posting software
to adapt to C News, rather than the other way around. Why should the tail
wag the dog?                                                     ^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^---- Ob. Hackneyed Phrase

>mathew

							- Kevin

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