Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: c-news: Date: too far in the future???
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.092412.5046@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1991 09:24:12 GMT
References: <1991Mar29.151419.8855@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu> <XGK_D2#@cs.widener.edu> <HHK_Q8#@cs.widener.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <HHK_Q8#@cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
>>    I had the same problem ...
>
>  That's what I get for responding right away .. it turns out that the
> problem is with Dave Alden's relaynews patch ...

I would remind everyone using C News of the following condition from our
copyright notice:

 * 3. Altered versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
 *    misrepresented as being the original software...

You use C News on condition that you not misrepresent it.  When reporting
problems like this, please describe your software as "C News with Dave
Alden's modifications", not "C News".  We do not stand behind any software
not shipped with our distribution, and we find it quite unpleasant to
spend time worrying about and investigating what turns out to be somebody
else's mistake.

We are fussy about quality control; it pleases us immensely when people
send mail saying things like "I only wish the vendors we pay money to
were half so conscientious".  Some of the software people have published
for use with C News has been good stuff.  Some of it basically works but
could use improvements in robustness and response to problems.  Some of
it, alas, is wretched sludge.  We don't officially endorse any of it
as part of C News; please be specific about what you run.

(We hope to eventually include the better stuff in our distribution,
authors permitting, although we've been very busy and our to-be-looked-at
pile is large.)
-- 
"The stories one hears about putting up | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 are all true."  -D. Harrison|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
