Xref: utzoo news.admin:14433 news.software.b:7799 Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <1991May18.211109.20401@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Sat, 18 May 1991 21:11:09 GMT References: <1991May16.151523.28123@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) writes: >> It is not broken and consequently will not be fixed. > >It loses articles unnecessarily, without reporting its delivery failure to >the originator. >I call that broken. You may call it what you wish. Our experience is that all alternatives are worse. The losses, while regrettable, are necessary. They are reported to the local sysadmin, which is the best that can be done safely. If you want this to be changed, propose a workable, fully thought out alternative without serious side effects. (Hint: you're going to have to put some serious effort into this, because all the obvious schemes occurred to us long ago. You needn't bother repeating them, and I'm not going to bother telling you yet again what's wrong with them.) -- And the bean-counter replied, | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology "beans are more important". | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry