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From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
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Subject: Re: CNews - now a pedantic software! : -(
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Date: 4 Apr 91 23:36:19 GMT
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Larry Blair writes:
>If you were sympathetic to the sysadmins you wouldn't just throw away all of
>their site's postings without any indication.

There are log file entries describing the problems with the illegal
articles on the machine that throws them away.  Is that really no
indication?

Arranging to keep the offending articles is not as straightforward as one
might think, but something may be arranged.  Stay tuned.

>Even the most naive admin would rather be bombarded with mail than have
>everything posted from their site disappear into a black hole.

Not if they are neighbours (or administrators) of UUNET (and if UUNET
wouldn't drop the article).  Getting stoned by hundreds of messages in
response to each posting would not thrill most administrators.
-- 
Geoff Collyer		world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff