Acbosgd.173 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!mhtsa!harpo!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Fri Dec 4 15:50:20 1981 Re: Bnews bug? I wouldn't go so far to say that the gamma interpretation of the -a option is a misfeature, it's just different. It confused the heck out of me at first, so it's worth warning people used to previous versions that they should also use -x. However, I find that almost all the time I use -a I leave off the date. In this case, with gamma you really don't need -a at all, just use -x instead. If there is to be valid criticism of this, it should not be on the grounds of "it confused me because it's different". Preferably it should be from someone who never used netnews before. Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.