Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdcsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!greg From: greg@sdcsvax.UUCP (Greg Noel) Newsgroups: net.bugs Subject: Re: significant bug in readnews 2.10, fi Message-ID: <385@sdcsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 01:15:56 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.385 Posted: Mon Oct 22 01:15:56 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Oct-84 06:20:34 EDT References: <245@haddock.UUCP> Organization: NCR Corporation, Torrey Pines Lines: 12 In article <245@haddock.UUCP> rob@haddock.UUCP (Rob Adams) writes: >I disagree. Another "proper" fix is to run notes, available >from the University of Illinois. I disagree with that -- the "notes" interface to the outside world is simply not adequate, no matter how good it is for human beings. Notice, for example, how "notes" has truncated the the subject line in the followup to which I am following up. A more suitable "proper" response would be to run "rn" -- I can't speak highly enough about how well it has been engineered, both for human beings and for other news computers. -- -- Greg Noel, NCR Torrey Pines Greg@sdcsvax.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA