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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! :-(
Message-ID: <1991Apr03.230016.8369@looking.on.ca>
Date: 3 Apr 91 23:00:16 GMT
References: <3NIP9ZB@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de> <27F63B37.CFD@tct.com> <1991Apr02.183535.13886@buster.stafford.tx.us> <1991Apr03.042907.16938@buster.stafford.tx.us>
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There are a variety of things that can go wrong, and how you bounce
depends on them.

For things that are clearly the fault of the site, you bounce back to
usenet@sender-site.   For things that are likely the fault of the user,
you bounce back to the user, with a note that if it's the software's
fault, to talk to the net admin.

However, I do encourage that the standard be changed so that:

	^Header:$

is a valid null header.   Requiring ^Header: $ is wasteful and doesn't
make a lot of sense.  Is this and 822ism or a 1036ism?

Yes, at first, bouncing would result in a bad message drawind scores
of bounce messages.   This would change *real* fast.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473