Xref: utzoo news.admin:14554 news.software.b:7861 Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: A way out? re: cnews dumping articles Message-ID: <1991May21.191941.15498@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 19:19:41 GMT References: <1991May16.151523.28123@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991May18.211109.20401@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991May19.035200.879@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article <1991May19.035200.879@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca> timk@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn) writes: >How about if a cron script tabulated the type of offenses Cnews found >over a given period of time (say, a week) and posted a tabulation to >control, news.lists, or some other group reporting the which sites are >posting broken articles, what they're doing wrong, and how often they're >doing it wrong? A reasonable idea for a *few* sites to do. (We did something along those lines before the software changes were released, in fact, although we did it by mail rather than by news.) Not so good if it's part of the standard configuration, because the last thing we need is a group with thousands of largely-redundant articles every week. -- And the bean-counter replied, | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology "beans are more important". | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry