Xref: utzoo news.software.b:7910 news.admin:14596 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!agate!forney.berkeley.edu!jbuck From: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <1991May24.014500.12255@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 24 May 91 01:45:00 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> <9105202307.10@rmkhome.UUCP> Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root) Reply-To: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 14 In article <9105202307.10@rmkhome.UUCP>, rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes: |> 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, you're reinventing the wheel. There's already a news directory called /usr/spool/news/junk that serves the purpose. Why not use what's already there? -- Joe Buck jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu {uunet,ucbvax}!galileo.berkeley.edu!jbuck