From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 01 2004 - 16:11:21 CDT
In <Pine.LNX.4.53.0406302224490.9330@a.shell.peak.org> John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes:
>Henry Spencer (henry@spsystems.net):
>>We don't want to
>>sanction its continuing use -- it *is* a botch -- but forbidding Subject
>>content to begin with "cmsg " is desirable.
>We have already banned a news agent from treating an article as a control
>article just because its subject starts with "cmsg". What possible reason
>do we need to ban that string from subjects? Oh, I remember, to protect
>broken software from needing to be replaced with something that functions
>up to spec.
>Sorry to interrupt. Protecting bad software is the goal. My bad for
>forgetting.
For once, I find myself in agreement with John.
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