Xref: utzoo news.software.b:7809 news.admin:14448 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <1991May19.032101.19359@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 19 May 91 03:21:01 GMT References: <28357D59.17BB@tct.com> <1991May19.013616.10567@ms.uky.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 34 In article <1991May19.013616.10567@ms.uky.edu> kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes: >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? Unless you have enormous numbers of such articles, the attached patch might do part of what you need. It just keeps the whole batch in in.coming/bad . After that it should be easy to run a script to pull the headers from the particular articles, then discard the batch. *** newsrun.dist Sat May 18 22:14:50 1991 --- newsrun Sat May 18 22:15:42 1991 *************** *** 147,153 **** # history entries for refused articles; this is right for # NNTP-feed sites and doesn't hurt uucp-feed sites unless # they refuse a good fraction of what they get. ! relaynews -r -n $stale <$text st=$? if test $st -ne 0 then --- 147,153 ---- # history entries for refused articles; this is right for # NNTP-feed sites and doesn't hurt uucp-feed sites unless # they refuse a good fraction of what they get. ! relaynews -s -r -n $stale <$text st=$? if test $st -ne 0 then -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940