Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!crdgw1!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!unmvax!uokmax!occrsh!fang!tarpit!pixie!rd From: rd@pixie.aii.com (Bob Thrush) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: warning to all sinners in regard to current C News patches Message-ID: Date: 29 Mar 91 19:02:10 GMT References: <1991Mar24.035259.20738@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: rd@pixie.aii.com (Bob Thrush) Organization: Automation Intelligence, Inc. Lines: 39 In-Reply-To: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of 24 Mar 91 03: 52:59 GMT In article <1991Mar24.035259.20738@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: > >among other things "the jig is up." I installed the 24Mar91 version and the tightening up has resulted in rejecting 84 articles in the past almost 2 days. It would be more desirable for this version to just alert the local system administrator about the problems rather than rejecting as well. A future version could provide the current tighter behavior after the offenders have had a chance to mend their ways. The author of the rejected article is probably unaware that a problem exists. Rejecting the article won't make him/her any more aware unless they happen to be posting on a newly upgraded C news machine. FYI, here's a summary of the rejections by this site: Count Reason ----- ------ 75 article "header" contains non-header line 5 no @ in Message-ID 2 no From: header 2 older than 30 days I investigated the `article "header" contains non-header line' reason by asking an upstream feed to look at the headers. Every rejected article appeared to be missing the space following the colon. I would like to have a patch to the 24Mar91 version that maintains the new tighter header checking but does *not* remove the offending article. (At first glance, it looks like adding some return statements in a few judicious places to relay/procart.c:reject() would provide the alert without rejecting the article. Could it be that simple?) -- Bob Thrush rd@aii.com Automation Intelligence,Inc.,1200 W. Colonial Drive, Orlando, FL 32804