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From: rhesmith@wlcrjs.UUCP (Richard H. E. Smith II)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re: re: re: re: ...
Message-ID: <563@wlcrjs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 05:09:13 EST
Article-I.D.: wlcrjs.563
Posted: Tue Feb 12 05:09:13 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 03:11:11 EST
References: <8111@brl-tgr.ARPA> <450@rlgvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: rhesmith@wlcrjs.UUCP (Richard H. E. Smith II)
Organization: chi-net, Public Access UN*X, Chicago IL
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Summary: 

>> unfortunately many msgs arrive out of sequence, and i read the rebuttal
>> before the statement.
>It's even worse.  Think of USENET as a datagram service.  Not only do
>messages arrive out of sequence; sometimes they don't arrive at all.

Both missing messages & out-of-order happen all the time here, too.  I
vote for well-edited quotes.

>(I'd move this to "net.news", except that the original posting came from
>INFO-C, and I don't think "net.news" gets gatewayed to the ARPANET.)
>	Guy Harris

They probably have smoother mail service over there on the "high-priced"
net.  Let them TRY to post to net.news! (;-))

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