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From: richard@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Where does cnews live?
Message-ID: <4571@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 15 Aug 89 16:22:16 GMT
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Reply-To: richard@uhccux.UUCP (Richard Foulk)
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} >Which brings us back to the issue of patch numbering.  If the patches for
} >C News were numbered like every other piece of net.software, we would
} >know that there were only 3 and we would know if we had missed any.
} 
} Oh, nonsense.  If they were numbered, you'd be asking what the latest
} number was.  This way, if the patch is dated yesterday, you have pretty
} considerable confidence that you are current.

And if they were numbered and dated then we'd have the best of everything.