Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: CNEWS MUST DIE!
Message-ID: <1991May18.041319.29490@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 18 May 1991 04:13:19 GMT
References: <1991May16.132626.5643@specialix.co.uk> <Tii426w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <Tii426w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) writes:
>The old C News delivered all the articles it could. The new one throws lots
>away unnecessarily.  In what way is that a "performance improvement"?

As I said before:  fewer screams from your victims.  The old C News did
indeed deliver all the articles it could, including a good many that
caused cardiac arrest or twitching convulsions in other news systems.
After a certain amount of jumping up and down by the proprietors of
such systems -- including, as I recall, UUNET -- we somewhat reluctantly
decided that being good citizens of the network required tightening up
standards conformance somewhat.  (There are limits to how far we can be
moved by those screams.  In particular, if it's a legal RFC1036 article
causing the problems, our attitude tends to be "gee, that's too bad,
why don't you fix your software?".)
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
