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From: billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed
Message-ID: <18015@celit.fps.com>
Date: 25 May 91 18:34:04 GMT
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In article <57Lc310w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) writes:
>henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> Once and for all:  under no circumstances, none whatsoever, is C News ever
>> going to report problems to a remote site via mail. [...]
>>           We aren't going to do it.  The subject is closed.
>Clearly, then, we have two alternatives:
>1. Report problems via some method other than each C News site sending mail;
>or
>2. Try to avoid problems.
>C News does neither. It therefore needs fixing.

Actually, it does (1).  It reposrts the problem in a log.

It's not broken.  It doesn't need fixing.

Other posting software is broken.  It does need fixing.

--Bill Davidson