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From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: An apology for the invalid control messages.
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Date: 8 Aug 90 22:08:20 GMT
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In article <25157.26b95615@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane) writes:
#Well, I really screwed up this time!
#
#Unfortunatly, I spelled "cancel" as "Cancel" with the result that
#about 70 invalid control messages were inflicted on the net.

and all the news admins on all the news hosts on all the net got 70 mail
messages each about them.   But thanks for owning up!

More seriously - its an easy mistake to make.   And why should control
messages be case-sensitive anyway?    I suggest that the maintainers of B
and C news add a patch to the next set thereof which makes the check for
control command case-insensitive.   Only a small thing, but it will prevent
re-occurance of this particular problem, at least for up to date sites,
which after a suitable number of years will be most of them.

Regards,          "None shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity"
        David Wright             STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex  CM17 9NA, UK
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