Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News, 386/ix, assorted questions/experiences
Message-ID: <1989Aug15.175540.23669@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Aug13.161806.15829@jdyx.UUCP> <24E7016E.1749@drivax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 89 17:55:40 GMT

In article <24E7016E.1749@drivax.UUCP> davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison) writes:
>... I'm going
>to send it to the C news folk for their perusal as an optional upact (it
>requires directory functions, so they probably won't want to make it the
>default, like "lowest" isn't the default).

We generally have a fairly low opinion of upact, but so many people would
like it to go faster that I'm willing to consider the idea of a C version.

>Also, it is my firm belief that empty newsgroups should have their min field
>set to one higher than their max field...

Hmmm...  Interesting idea.  Anybody know of anything that would break?
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