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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed
Message-ID: <8iua326w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 21 May 91 13:41:06 GMT
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billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson) writes:
> Ah, but most USENET headers are not human generated, including "Date: ".

C News will still dump articles because human-generated headers are wrong,
will it not?

> The software generating the article in the first place should have done
> it right instead of wasting the CPU cycles of hundreds of thousands
> of machines around the world receiving USENET.

I don't think anyone's contesting that. What we're saying is that if the
software generating the article is faulty, someone at that site should be
told so that he can fix it, or if the error is trivial it should be corrected
and logged locally.

My news system here at Mantis writes me little messages saying:

 10-Apr-91 05:37 < rnews >  | ADDED DATE, Wed, 10 Apr 91 05:37:34 GMT
 10-Apr-91 05:38 < rnews >  | ADDED DATE, Wed, 10 Apr 91 05:38:02 GMT
 10-Apr-91 05:38 < rnews >  | ADDED DATE, Wed, 10 Apr 91 05:38:36 GMT
 10-Apr-91 05:38 < rnews >  | ADDED DATE, Wed, 10 Apr 91 05:38:43 GMT
 10-Apr-91 05:38 < rnews >  | ADDED DATE, Wed, 10 Apr 91 05:38:49 GMT
 10-Apr-91 05:38 < rnews >  | ADDED DATE, Wed, 10 Apr 91 05:38:56 GMT

It's an MS-DOS BBS system. If it can handle correcting Date: lines, poor
little C News ought to be able to.

> For the human generated headers, the posting software should worry
> about problem and decide wether to drop or correct them.

Or perhaps TELL THE USER?


mathew