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From: nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk (Neil Readwin)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed
Message-ID: <1991May18.192836.137@micrognosis.co.uk>
Date: 18 May 91 19:28:36 GMT
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In article <5ukZ24w164w@mantis.co.uk>, CNEWS MUST DIE!
<mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
|> If an article cannot be corrected, then either [...]
|> 2) It should be passed on anyway in the hope that the next site will have
|>    better software and be able to correct it; and optionally an attempt
|>    should be made to notify the article originator.
|> 
|> Option 2 might mean that people at offending sites get lots of automatic
|> mail. In which case, good!

Erik Fair's recent experiences with sendmail (described in c.p.tcp-ip I
believe) seem to indicate that this is *not* good :-\ Neil.

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