preece@ccvaxa.UUCP (08/23/85)
> [quotes from Guy Harris] > It shouldn't generate *any* orphans. Like it or not, netnews is a > datagram service. Any news software which can't deal with duplicated, > missing, or out-of-sequence articles is behaving incorrectly. ---------- I confess, Orphans don't really bother me that much. Somedays I just skip them, others I check what's in them; I can usually figure out what the subject is. Certainly it would be better to have a meaningful title, but I don't see why some of you get so upset about it. ---------- > The habit of quoting whole articles has nothing to do with the way news > and notes present articles. ---------- I'll half agree on that one. I think the notes interface makes posting whole articles as quotes seem less necessary, but even in notes it's usually desirable to include SOME material to establish context. -- scott preece gould/csd - urbana ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!preece