Xref: utzoo news.software.b:7909 news.admin:14595 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!crackers!cpoint!frog!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <9105202307.10@rmkhome.UUCP> Date: 21 May 91 08:06:00 GMT References: <1991May15.142241.10170@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> <28357D59.17BB@tct.com> <1991May19.013616.10567@ms.uky.edu> <1991May19.022322.29056@zoo.toronto.edu> Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Lines: 17 In article <1991May19.022322.29056@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <1991May19.013616.10567@ms.uky.edu> kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes: >>... The message IDs are logged >>along with the complaint , but the messages themselves are thrown away >>(of course) so the concerned administrator has to do a bit of detective work. > >This is something we'd kind of like to do *something* about -- it's not >nice to throw away the evidence -- but defining exactly what should be done >is a little tricky and we haven't yet sorted it all out. How about a news directory called /trashed? The admin could easily go through this and see just what is happening. The down side would be the horrendous problem that causes /usr/spool/news/trashed to overflow the news spool. But hopefully the news admin would have realised there was a problem before it go to this state. Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP frog!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP