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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed
Message-ID: <2uwL325w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 27 May 91 13:05:00 GMT
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Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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billd@fps.com (Bill Davidson) writes:
> In article <57Lc310w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) 
> >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.

This is not reporting the problem in any useful sense, since the report does
not reach anyone who can do anything to fix it.

I could set up our system to print out all mail bounces on an unattended
printer sitting in an office in the Channel Islands, rather than mailing them
back to the originator. This would not generally be construed as "reporting
the problem", however.


mathew