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From: preece@ccvaxa.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Sorry about those orphaned response
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Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 16:40:00 EDT
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> [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.
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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.
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> The habit of quoting whole articles has nothing to do with the way news
> and notes present articles.
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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.

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scott preece
gould/csd - urbana
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