david@jane.jpl.nasa.gov (David Robinson) (08/19/89)
One thing that has puzzled me. Why is C news called "C" news? "A"
(the original) had a completely different article format from "B"
news. Special processing is required to process an A article under
B news. C news uses the same transport protocol, same message format,
and from the outside looks identical to B news. Except for the minor
changes to the history file it appears to just be a total rewrite
of the B news code, just like 3.0 news (aka TMNN).
I can see the possible confusion with 3.0 news in the numbering
scheme but didn't C news start first? Why wasn't it news 3.0?
-David
P.S. I use C news and think that Geoff and Henry have done an amazingly
good job on the code, I just wonder about the name.
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Disclaimer: No one listens to me anyway!geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer) (08/19/89)
David Robinson: >Why is C news called "C" news? ... it appears to just be a total rewrite >of the B news code, just like 3.0 news (aka TMNN). I invented the name "C news" to make it plain that our code was written from scratch, contains no B news code and never did contain any B news code. The "official" name of TMNN is B 3.0 news; from what Eric has said to us, it did start life as B 2.11 news and was then rewritten, piece by piece. >I can see the possible confusion with 3.0 news in the numbering >scheme but didn't C news start first? Why wasn't it news 3.0? We started on C news during 1985. Henry wrote C expire first, then I wrote C relaynews in the fall of 1985 and coined the name "C news" at that time. I gather TMNN started a year or more later. In 1985, we had no idea whether or not Rick would some day want to release a B 3.0 news of his own, and our code isn't B news. -- Geoff Collyer utzoo!utstat!geoff, geoff@utstat.toronto.edu
david@rosie.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson) (08/19/89)
In article <1989Aug19.001609.29506@utstat.uucp> geoff@utstat.uucp (Geoff Collyer) writes:
<David Robinson:
<>Why is C news called "C" news? ... it appears to just be a total rewrite
<>of the B news code, just like 3.0 news (aka TMNN).
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<I invented the name "C news" to make it plain that our code was written
<from scratch, contains no B news code and never did contain any B news
<code. ...
<We started on C news during 1985. Henry wrote C expire first, then I
<wrote C relaynews in the fall of 1985 and coined the name "C news" at
<that time. ...
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<Geoff Collyer utzoo!utstat!geoff, geoff@utstat.toronto.edu
I get it, it is not "C" as in "A" "B" "C", but "C"ollyer news! ;-)
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