Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucla-cs!twinsun!eggert
From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: Users of Rodney's UUCP modules / GUS
Message-ID: <1991May15.014834.10788@twinsun.com>
Date: 15 May 91 01:48:34 GMT
References: <1991May13.172233.5581@zoo.toronto.edu> <DByX213w164w@mantis.co.uk> <CMM.0.90.1.674154003.risks@chiron.csl.sri.com>
Sender: usenet@twinsun.com
Organization: Twin Sun, Inc
Lines: 17
Nntp-Posting-Host: ata

mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) writes:

	C News should not discard an article unless it is unable to
	correct the header; and if it does discard an article, it
	should at least attempt to warn the poster.

I for one do not want to be warned about articles discarded by sites
all over the world.  I get enough such grief whenever I send mail to
improperly configured mail exploders that send error reports back to me
instead of to the mailing list's maintainers.  Warnings should be sent
only to people that can do something about the problem.  C News logs a
warning for the site's maintainer to read, a method far superior to the
misguided policy of return to sender.

Erik E. Fair's ``Case of the Replicated Errors: An Internet Postmaster's
Horror'' in RISKS DIGEST 11:66 (13 May 1991) suggests the kind of havoc
that might ensue if C News mailed warnings to posters.