salkind@cmcl2.UUCP (04/20/84)
Nf-From: cmcl2!salkind Apr 19 17:29:00 1984 Several notes sites are now running a different B-news output routine. This version generates both "hidden" B-news notes headers and information in the text of the article. I consider this to be very bad form. The whole point in using the hidden headers was to spare readnews users of seeing the two "garbage" notes lines at the beginning of the article. By putting the notes-specific information in both locations, though, readnews readers still see the notes lines. Things gets worse, though. My implementation of bnewsinput sees the hidden header lines, so it then posts the body of the article to the notes system untouched. Therefore our notes readers are seeing the extra lines also! I could change bnewsinput, but I don't think I should have to. Clearly, the notes-news interface was misdesigned originally. Now we have a chance to clean it up -- let's do it!