Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!shell!nuchat!buster!rli From: rli@buster.stafford.tx.us (Buster Irby) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: warning to all sinners in regard to current C News patches Message-ID: <1991Apr03.033233.16633@buster.stafford.tx.us> Date: 3 Apr 91 03:32:33 GMT References: <1991Mar24.035259.20738@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Mar31.055947.18653@looking.on.ca> Reply-To: rli@buster.stafford.tx.us Organization: Buster irby Lines: 19 brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes: >Actually, the best answer is to set up one central site that detects >bad articles and e-mails back to the originator. This will get them to >fix things real quick. If everyone is dropping the out of spec articles, how do you propose that the offensive articles be passed along far enough for one central site to get a look at them? In order for this to work, everyone would have to continue accepting the out of spec articles for a period of time while we track down and notify the source of the bad articles. I have been running C-News for over a year now and have been very happy with it up to this point. However, I believe that this is a very rash move, and I, for one, am not going to install these patches until more thought has been given as to how to deal with this problem. Simply dropping the offensive articles on the floor is not an acceptable answer.