chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (02/16/84)
I think we may have a problem here, folks. The other day, I saw a message
in net.general with the wonderful 'Re:' in it. Being the nice, evenheaded
person I am, I wrote a nice, evenheaded message (really, it
was!) to the sender reminding him that followups to net.general belong in
net.followup, and he shouldn't override the software on that. He wrote a
nice letter back telling me to leave him alone and talk to the real
culprit, the notes software. Sure enough, I looked again, and his message
was a notes message (you can tell from all of those wonderful non-standard
header lines that look similar to line noise). Well, golly me, there are
two more of those wonders in net.general this morning.
What is going on here? I can understand notes not complying to the header
formats and making my life miserable with Orphaned responses and (-nf) and
no References: and things, but if it is going to start dumping replies back
into net.general, that software (and the net in general) have a real
problem here. I don't know offhand if this is a problem limited to a single
site or what, but it needs looking into.
chuq (sweet, nice, and even headed as always....)
--
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Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pieessick@uiuccsb.UUCP (02/19/84)
#R:nsc:-65300:uiuccsb:3300001:000:549
uiuccsb!essick Feb 18 16:48:00 1984
It sounds like someone is running an old version of the
software. I've had modifications in my code since October which
does the "right" (debatable in my opinion) thing in splitting
base notes and responses into 2 groups when going to news. This
handles the net.general/net.followup case and any others you
want (since it's table driven).
The version of notesfiles that comes with the 4.2 Bsd
distribution does not have this feature.
-- Ray Essick, University of Illinois
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