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From: essick@uiucdcsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: getting rid of Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <3400013@uiucdcsb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 10:36:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  1 10:36:00 1984
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb!essick    Nov  1 09:36:00 1984

A new version of the notesfile/news gateway programs "newsinput" and
"newsoutput" written mostly by Tw Cook at HP and Lou Salkind at NYU
manages to keep the titles.

newsinput was originally a quick, cheap and very dirty (probably even
filthy) program to "get the job done".  It worked with A-news format
and made assumptions about things arriving in order. "Newsoutput" was
almost as bad (although it was more coherent).

The new version is much better organized, understands and generates
USENET compatible headers, and doesn't through away as much information
as it used to.  Tw and Lou did a wonderful job of fixing it up.

I will probably be posting the current notesfile source & documentation
to net.sources in the next month.

-- Ray Essick, University of Illinois