Bug#2381: Pine posts...NOT Pine does not set a default NNTP server
Ian Jackson writes:
>
> The articles in news.announce.newusers are not intended for the
> authors of software packages, who are presumed to know what they're
> doing. They tell you `don't post private email'; they don't tell you
> `a Newsgroups line doesn't mean that the mail message you're reading
> was posted'.
No, but I would think that the part about not, in any circumstances,
posting private email should strike software developers as a design
consideration. The implementation considerations are entirely another
story... (and much less likely to be documented other than by de-facto
standard)
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