Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lsuc!eci386!ecicrl!clewis From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: CNEWS MUST DIE! Message-ID: <1528@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> Date: 21 May 91 22:18:33 GMT References: <1991May18.041319.29490@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991May21.163432.9609@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 19 In article <1991May21.163432.9609@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >Once and for all: we have seen too much grief caused by misguided attempts >to "correct" mistakes in headers to ever engage in this practice ourselves. >The possibilities for nasty side effects are simply too great. We aren't >going to do it. The subject is closed. Case in point: the way B-news handles postings to moderated groups where the machine doesn't have the newsgroup moderated: the article will traverse news as normal, until it hits sites that do, and they automatically mail a copy to the moderator. More than one moderator has gotten swamped by hundreds (if not thousands) of copies of an article. Mailing back error messages about bad headers to the originator would be infinitely worse. -- Chris Lewis, Phone: (613) 832-0541, Domain: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca UUCP: ...!cunews!latour!ecicrl!clewis; Ferret Mailing List: ferret-request@eci386; Psroff (not Adobe Transcript) enquiries: psroff-request@eci386 or Canada 416-832-0541. Psroff 3.0 in c.s.u soon!