Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews strikes again? - Re: newgroup comp.lang.sigplan
Message-ID: <1989Aug11.214406.24358@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Aug3.112451.21772@nc386.uucp> <1631@stl.stc.co.uk> <1989Aug10.231323.29146@nc386.uucp>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 89 21:44:06 GMT

In article <1989Aug10.231323.29146@nc386.uucp> allbery@nc386.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>... ("mvjunk") which apparently doesn't like C news's
>version of the active file...

This is a bit surprising, since the C News active file is the same as the
B News one, with minor extensions.  We too would be curious to know why
it broke.

>Yes, C news's propensity to post newgroup messages with a default distribution
>of "world" is a problem.

Fixed in next patch (Monday?).

>A worse problem is that many programs expect to say
>"inews -C news.group moderated"

Uh, "many"?  We aren't aware of any.  (Undoubtedly there are a few, but
we'd be curious to know about any programs that do "inews -C" -- they must
post-date the initial 2.11 release, since 2.10 broadcast the creation
message like C News.)

> but C news requires it to be
>"inews -C 'news.group moderated'" -- note the quotes, inews -C reads exactly
>one argument.  (Yuck.)

Well, some people like to conform to things like syntax standards and some
don't.  We do.
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