Aharpo.590 net.news utzoo!decvax!harpo!notes Sun May 2 15:44:31 1982 Re: Re: From notesfile net.news at harpo - from a notesfile #R:floyd:-18200:harpo:9800002:040:937 harpo!notes May 2 15:40:00 1982 You're wrong. Notesfiles' proponents will gain some insight into the interface problems between notes and netnews by using the notes system. I'm a little disapointed that 'angry waves of protest' are what I see rather than constructive critisism. I don't know how to write netnews compatable headers that won't be misinterpreted by netnews. I'ld appreciate some suggestions. As we've seen with mail, netnews is composed of 'sendnews' and 'readnews'. As more obnoxious headers are produced by mail and news sending systems, more sophisticated reader programs are required to strip out the unsightly but necessary transmission information. I don't think we can expect another sender to interface to the system without some cooperation from the existing system. I also don't expect that changes ought to be made to netnews until the notesfile stuff has been evaluated and has evolved based on its overall merit, not on nitpicking. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.