Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!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: 16 Apr 91 21:18:03 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> <1991Apr16.200219.8743@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: usenet@iti.org (Hela News Manager) Organization: Industrial Technology Institute Lines: 21 henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <5299@pkmab.se> ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson) writes: >>> The above suggestions work fine for one or two articles, but less well for >>>ten thousand "obviously bad" articles. >>Where would you get ten thousand bad articles from? >It's not prohibitively difficult to arrange it, if one of your news feeds >has been badly constipated -- or had to be restored from an old backup -- >and suddenly dumps several megabytes of very stale news on you. Systematic >mangling likewise is not hard to arrange, especially if you're a neighbor >of a gateway machine running badly-written software. You already have a solution, Henry. In the present daily reporting of news activity you list only "top 5" sites for various bad things. Why not keep the first 20 bad articles (or the first 20K) and throw the rest away? It's a good save compromise between nothing and overflow. -- "Our informal mission is to improve the love life of operators worldwide." Peter Behrendt, president of Exabyte. Quoted in Digital Review, Feb 4, 1991.