Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site ccvaxa Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Sorry about those orphaned response Message-ID: <1300012@ccvaxa> Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 16:40:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.1300012 Posted: Fri Aug 23 16:40:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:22:34 EDT References: <18800007@hpfcla> Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #R:hpfcla:18800007:ccvaxa:1300012:000:912 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!preece Aug 23 15:40:00 1985 > [quotes from Guy Harris] > It shouldn't generate *any* orphans. Like it or not, netnews is a > datagram service. Any news software which can't deal with duplicated, > missing, or out-of-sequence articles is behaving incorrectly. ---------- I confess, Orphans don't really bother me that much. Somedays I just skip them, others I check what's in them; I can usually figure out what the subject is. Certainly it would be better to have a meaningful title, but I don't see why some of you get so upset about it. ---------- > The habit of quoting whole articles has nothing to do with the way news > and notes present articles. ---------- I'll half agree on that one. I think the notes interface makes posting whole articles as quotes seem less necessary, but even in notes it's usually desirable to include SOME material to establish context. -- scott preece gould/csd - urbana ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece