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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: article "header" contains non-header line
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.165240.13757@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1991 16:52:40 GMT
References: <3*M#TB_@cs.widener.edu> <1991Mar25.220106.25166@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Mar28.080325.7729@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar28.080325.7729@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA> barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P. Barrett) writes:
>I don't really like this drop-on-the-floor policy for bad news articles,
>because it increases the difficulty of debugging posting and transport
>software.  How about mail-to-administrator or store-in-junk-newsgroup or
>store-somewhere-and-mail-pointer-to-administrator?

We need to do a major rethink of error handling policy at some point.
At the moment it's awkward to do much about this.

It's not a trivial problem, unfortunately.  The above suggestions work
fine for one or two articles, but less well for ten thousand "obviously
bad" articles.
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