Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Subject: Re: warning to all sinners in regard to current C News patches
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 91 05:59:47 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.055947.18653@looking.on.ca>
References: <1991Mar24.035259.20738@zoo.toronto.edu> <RD.91Mar29140206@pixie.aii.com> <UHJPNUU@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de>

In article <UHJPNUU@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> admin@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de writes:
>
>I'm afraid I need this too or I have to deinstall the newest patches.
>In the last 24 hours a huge number of articles are dropped. It looks
>like that common software (only in Europe?) creates Reference:-Lines
>without a space after the colon. All this articles are dropped.
>
>Is there a simple hack or is it necassary to deinstall the complete
>patches?
>

I think the plan is to get the people posting the non-conforming
articles to fix their software.  If you don't do this eventually, the net
will get more and more bitrot.

Actually, the best answer is to set up one central site that detects
bad articles and e-mails back to the originator.   This will get them to
fix things real quick.

It's not unjustified.  USENET can be a mishmash of software, but the one
thing everybody has to agree upon is the file format.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
