Xref: utzoo news.software.b:7804 news.admin:14444 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!ukma!kherron From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <1991May19.013616.10567@ms.uky.edu> Date: 19 May 91 01:36:16 GMT References: <1991May15.142241.10170@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> <28357D59.17BB@tct.com> Distribution: na Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Lines: 23 chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >>> News software which generates articles that do not conform to the RFC is >>> broken. Articles generated by such buggy software deserve to be discarded. >Administrators who get "bogus header" messages and don't pass them on >deserve flamage. Software that (finally!) implements the relevant RFCs >doesn't. One problem with this is that the C-news report only lists the site(s) which are feeding you bad articles, not where the articles actually came from or the exact problem with the article. The message IDs are logged along with the complaint , but the messages themselves are thrown away (of course) so the concerned administrator has to do a bit of detective work. I'm working on a script to notify me of all articles bit-bucketed for bad header reasons. I could arrange for it to be posted, e.g. to news.lists. Is there any call for such a thing? -- Kenneth Herron kherron@ms.uky.edu University of Kentucky +1 606 257 2975 Department of Mathematics "So this won't be a total loss, can you make it so guys get to throw their mothers-in-law in?" "Sure, why not?"