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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: A way out? re: cnews dumping articles
Message-ID: <71mc313w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 22 May 91 12:54:17 GMT
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Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
> In article <1991May19.035200.879@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca> timk@wynnds.xenitec.on
> >How about if a cron script tabulated the type of offenses Cnews found 
> >over a given period of time (say, a week) and posted a tabulation to 
> >control, news.lists, or some other group reporting the which sites are
> >posting broken articles, what they're doing wrong, and how often they're
> >doing it wrong?
> 
> A reasonable idea for a *few* sites to do.

How about if one or two sites do it, and mail the guilty parties, and in the
mean time C News doesn't try to enforce its own idea of what the standards
are?

If after six months there are sites who are still simply ignoring the
automatically-generated warnings, then perhaps we can consider more
unpleasant methods.


mathew