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From: donn@hp-dcd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: A Thought on Newsgroup Structure (lo
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Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 13:05:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 10 13:05:00 1984
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Nf-From: hp-dcd!donn    Feb  3 10:05:00 1984

I've been following the notes vs. news wars for a while, and I think
maybe a clarification is in order.  There are two, intimately related
but distinct, versions of notes.  There are the UI versions, directly
done (and supported?) by Ray Essick.  There is also the UCB "version" in
the "contributed software" section.  The UCB version is 99% the Essick
version, but Ray Spickemier has fixed a few of the problems.

It turns out that the problems are exactly those that are complained
about a lot!  He's added a "%" key for decription of rot13 jokes,
and "|" and "^" (analoguous to s and S) for pipes.  He's also cleaned
up the notes creation and monitoring some.  We had one site here that
refused to run notes, but now wouldn't use anything else.  The UCB
version is based on UI 1.3, I'm told; I don't know much about UI 1.6
yet.

We run notes only on all our HP built machines, and have no complaints.

Orphaned responses are in general a symptom of news' occasional
unreliability, not any problem of notes directly;  you see the orphaned
responses in reading news, it just isn't as visible that its an orphan.
(How many times have you thought "I don't know what this is a respnse to".
Usually one blames ones memory; with notes, you know that you aren't
losing your mind, you havn't seen anything about it before!)

Donn Terry
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