Xref: utzoo news.admin:14640 news.software.b:7957 Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <283E8081.4669@tct.com> Date: Sat, 25 May 1991 15:19:29 GMT References: <1991May21.191538.15325@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL According to mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!): >Well, if you don't need to repair the header, don't bother. Just propogate >the article. If some other piece of software does need to repair the header, >it can do so itself. You don't realize the importance of the Date header. Older C News versions did as you suggest. As a result, they were vulnerable to the loads of old news which get dumped on the net periodically due to admin inexperience and mistakes. C News insists on a parseable Date so it can guarantee that the news it forwards isn't old junk. >Please *think* about your ideas, including how objectionable they might be, >before foisting them off on Usenet. Get a grip. Geoff and Henry don't force administrators at gunpoint to apply C News patches. AAdministrators who apply C News patches do so because they decide to do so. If you don't like the way *my* site works, take it up with *me*. Leave them out of it. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , perl -e 'sub do { print "extinct!\n"; } do do()'