[net.news] burger discussions and old news software

dmmartindale (11/05/82)

In his net.general article on the burger debate, Mark complains about old
versions of the software not generating Re: lines nor putting followups in
net.followup.  At watmath, at least, 2.9 has been running since a few days
after it was first released.  There is nothing to prevent someone
from using postnews to direcly post something to net.general, and I suspect
that this is what happened.  He may not even know about the 'reply' command.
I don't see any simple solution to this.