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- From: avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,news.admin.misc
- Subject: Re: 8-bit news
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 20:58:32 -0500
- Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA
- Lines: 52
- Message-ID: <1gm2g8INNe1r@rodan.UU.NET>
- References: <CKD.92Dec15161747@loiosh.eff.org> <1glp8dINN4sc@rodan.UU.NET> <BzBuoy.6MB@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net
-
- In article <BzBuoy.6MB@ra.nrl.navy.mil> atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
- > In many cases the vendor doesn't exist and source code isn't
- >available and so it _cannot_ be fixed. Also recall that USENET is
- >transported over weird links, not just UUCP and NNTP.
-
- Not really much -- can you recall such a link NOW?
- It's plain stupid to make serious decisions affecting millions
- of machines and use the buggy software as a rationale!
-
- The following universal remedy will help:
-
- main(ac, av)
- char **av;
- {
- register c;
- FILE *of;
- char buf[10240]
-
- sprintf(buf, "rmail.buggy %s", av[1]);
- of = popen(buf, "w");
- while( (c = getchar()) != EOF )
- putc(c & 0177);
- pclose(of);
- }
-
- (translate to YFPL).
-
- >>"Just send 8 bits" *is* backward compatible. Check your logic.
- >
- >Nope. With email will crash other folks' machines, which is at least
- >highly anti-social and possibly down right malicious. With news that
- >same thing might happen.
-
- Wake up. There ALREADY are 8-bit newsgroups distrtibuted in US.
- Subscribe to relcom.* and see (available at most major gateways).
-
- Anybody heard about epidemic host crashing recently?
-
- Didn't you realize that we're talking about changing the standard
- POST FACTUM?
-
- >Many of the hosts in question _haven't_ upgraded their software in
- >years because they cannot upgrade their software -- which is why there
- >is _still_ a hosts.txt at nic.ddn.mil.
-
- And what? Should we all follow that line? Where's my handy card
- puncher?! What kind of hosts you're talking about? I understand
- why people are reluctant to touch machines which launch missiles;
- but, excuse me, it is not the kind of the stuff we're talking about.
-
-
- --vadim
-