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From: david@jane.jpl.nasa.gov (David Robinson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Why call it C news?
Message-ID: <1989Aug18.201907.20900@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 18 Aug 89 20:19:07 GMT
Reply-To: david@jane.jpl.nasa.gov (David Robinson)
Organization: Image Analysis Systems Grp, JPL
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One thing that has puzzled me.  Why is C news called "C" news?  "A" 
(the original) had a completely different article format from "B"
news.  Special processing is required to process an A article under
B news.  C news uses the same transport protocol, same message format,
and from the outside looks identical to B news.  Except for the minor
changes to the history file it appears to just be a total rewrite
of the B news code, just like 3.0 news (aka TMNN).

I can see the possible confusion with 3.0 news in the numbering
scheme but didn't C news start first?  Why wasn't it news 3.0?

	-David

P.S. I use C news and think that Geoff and Henry have done an amazingly
good job on the code, I just wonder about the name.


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