Xref: utzoo news.admin:14603 news.software.b:7923 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: Date: 22 May 91 12:40:02 GMT References: <1991May21.190510.15062@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 21 henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: > In article <1991May20.093018@mccall.com> tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) writes: > >Are you saying that this is a problem that doesn't merit attention? ... > > No, that it's a problem that is very difficult to solve, and that the > naive solutions which people constantly propose have unacceptably nasty > side effects. I see. And having hours of my time wasted by your software is not an "unacceptably nasty side effect"? > Our overwhelming experience is that nobody bothers until we start throwing > away articles. What experience is this? When did you try mailing out warnings to sites producing bad headers? Or are you just pontificating? mathew