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From: nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk (Neil Readwin)
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Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed
Message-ID: <1991May20.120043.10968@micrognosis.co.uk>
Date: 20 May 91 12:00:43 GMT
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In article <1991May19.102741.24411@wimsey.bc.ca>, jhenders@wimsey.bc.ca
(John Henders) writes:
|> 	Eric's problem arose from sendmail attempting to deliver the article,
|> as well as notifying him of the problem.

Indeed, and if you read what mathew wrote that is *exactly* what he was
suggesting C news should do. He also said "Option 2 might mean that people at
offending sites get lots of automatic mail. In which case, good!". I think
he underestimates the impact that 'lots of automatic mail' can have. 
Futhermore it is not obvious that dropping the article and sending mail
actually solves this problem given the connectivity of non-C news sites that
*could* continue to propagate the article.

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