Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!hela!wotan.iti.org!scs From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: article "header" contains non-header line Message-ID: Date: 15 Apr 91 15:31:22 GMT References: <1991Mar25.220106.25166@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Mar28.080325.7729@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA> <1991Mar28.165240.13757@zoo.toronto.edu> <5299@pkmab.se> Sender: usenet@iti.org (Hela News Manager) Organization: Industrial Technology Institute Lines: 16 ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson) writes: >henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >>There were various possibilities for how to go about this, but it always >>seemed to boil down to the hard, cold fact that people seldom fix their >>news software until they are forced to. Alerts just don't help much. >Since silently dropping bad articles won't force anyone to do anything . . . The articles are not dropped silently. If you run the supplied daily cleanup script, it tells you what sites are feeding you articles with bad headers. This permits your (presumably) friendly neighbors to tell you about problems, and you to do the same for them. -- "Our informal mission is to improve the love life of operators worldwide." Peter Behrendt, president of Exabyte. Quoted in Digital Review, Feb 4, 1991.