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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed
Message-ID: <1991May21.155936.9037@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 15:59:36 GMT
References: <282FD655.3D2A@tct.com> <5ukZ24w164w@mantis.co.uk> <1991May18.192836.137@micrognosis.co.uk> <1991May19.102741.24411@wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991May19.102741.24411@wimsey.bc.ca> jhenders@wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) writes:
>... If the first C-news site that rejected
>the article dropped it on the floor, this problem wouldn't exist. I think an
>attempt to notify the sender is a good idea...

There may not be one "first C News site" to see the article; there may be
dozens or even hundreds of them, if the article first passed through a
B News site with a large news fanout.

Once and for all:  under no circumstances, none whatsoever, is C News ever
going to report problems to a remote site via mail.  There is simply no
way of making sure that more-or-less innocent people won't get inundated
with immense volumes of costly mail.  People who make suggestions along
those lines can forget it; they have not thought the problem through;
we have.  We aren't going to do it.  The subject is closed.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry