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From: rsk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Tired of bogus subject lines?
Message-ID: <11509@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 10 Sep 89 00:18:54 GMT
References: <7921@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1650@unocss.UUCP>
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In article <1650@unocss.UUCP> fritz@unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell) writes:
>   I hope every single message your cute little program sends bounces and
>fills up your disk and you miss your news completely.  You're a jerk.

No, the "jerk(s)" are those folks who coded a flagrant violation of the
RFC into nn, and those folks that continue to run it in its broken state.

And since *you're* the one who's so concerned about network resources,
you might want to multiply the size of your article by the guesstimated
number of sites on Usenet; then estimate how many thousands of letters
Gene's program will have to generate before it even approaches that figure.

Actually, my solution to the problem is rather effective, too: modify
news 2.11 so that it silently discards non-compliant articles.
-- 
Rich Kulawiec, rsk@boulder.colorado.edu, boulder!rsk