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From: karish@mindcrf.UUCP
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Subject: Re: An apology for the invalid control messages.
Summary: `defective' control messages
Message-ID: <9008100218.AA23766@mindcrf.mindcraft.com>
Date: 10 Aug 90 02:18:19 GMT
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In article <38053@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu
(Joe Buck) writes:
>In article <3295@stl.stc.co.uk>, dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) writes:
>[ Someone mis-spelled cancel as Cancel in a control message, generating
>  tons of mail ]

>The bug happened because the current software propogates bogus control
>messages.  If it threw them away instead with a message on stderr when
>you tried to post one, the original sender would have gotten an error
>message and no cruft would have been sent out to other systems.

    And it would be practically impossible to add a new control message
    to the currently-recognized set.

    Usenet would become even more unwieldy than it now is if every site
    were to start enforcing all sorts of policies on other sites'
    articles.

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	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
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