Re: X.CPP, my hand-rolled newsreader.

From: Rick (none_at_none.com)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:26:14 -0400

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:16:54 +0000, Jeff Relf wrote:

> Hi Rick,
>
> Re: X, my hand-rolled newsreader,
>
> You wrote: <<
>
> You have said it doesn't work properly,
> it has problems sorting,
> and it surely doesn't format text properly. And it apparently
> doesn't work properly with the Followup header. >>
>
> I don't remember saying that it " doesn't work properly "...
>
> There are a lot of things left unimplemented, that's all.
>
> X sorts just fine, it scores posts, sorts on that,
> and it can show " Cola's 10 most popular people ",
> as ranked by the number of direct replies they have received.
> ( In compiling it, No one is excluded for any reason )
>
> My quoting and whitespace usage is manual, not automatic.
>
> And God knows I Want X to ignore the Followup-to header.
>
> Knode puts those in Randomly,
> sending people's replies to parts unknown...
>
> which is both rude and incompetent.

Translation, you don't give a *** about standards and/or you don't have a
clue how Usenet works. 

-- 
Rick