Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!brad From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Subject: Re: Conversion to C news Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Date: Mon, 03 Sep 90 02:06:07 GMT Message-ID: <1990Sep03.020607.11801@looking.on.ca> References: <138@tdatirv.UUCP> <1990Aug31.155234.8788@zoo.toronto.edu> Yes, I noticed an article come by recently with no Subject: header. It came through a fairly long path, all C-news, I assume. I am not sure this is good. I realize that relaynews was designed to do as few checks as possible, and to simply pass on rewriting nothing but the Path: at all times, but I think this could be a wrong decision. On a net of 15,000 sites, with at least hundreds of news tinkerers, anything bad that can happen, will happen. I suspect news software should try to isolate such things where it can. I once issued a message with a null message-id. It made it all over the C news subnet that I'm on, and it's permanent until you rebuild your history file. I shouldn't have done it, but it was an honest bug, and if I do it, then so will others with time. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473