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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Tired of bogus subject lines?
Message-ID: <6118@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 10 Sep 89 23:10:25 GMT
References: <7921@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1650@unocss.UUCP> <11521@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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[regarding silently trashing articles that have unusual subject lines (Re^n:,
 etcetera).]

In article <11521@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, rsk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rich Kulawiec) writes:
> I don't see how you can argue that it's "Evil and Rude" , unless you'd
> like to assert that all sites are under some sort of obligation to pass
> malformed articles, and/or that getting news 2.11 to enforce the RFC is
> somehow unacceptable.

Strictly speaking you're correct. Perhaps "evil and rude" is incorrect. A
better description of this sort of activity is "stupid". People should not
be literal minded idiots dancing to the tune of an admittedly flawed RFC.

Subject lines are created by people, not a rigid peice of software. Zapping
articles because a subject line is a slight variant of the RFC makes as much
sense as zapping an article because the keywords are poorly chosen or because
the signature is longer than 4 lines.
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