Xref: utzoo news.admin:14687 news.software.b:7980 Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!uunet!kithrup!sef From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Date: Mon, 27 May 1991 21:29:11 GMT Message-ID: <1991May27.212911.13922@kithrup.COM> References: <283E8081.4669@tct.com> In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) writes: >Yes. The problem is that this "guarantee", along with the other "guarantees" >implemented by C News, has the side effect that ordinary people can have >their postings silently dropped because they made trivial typos. If ordinary people are giving the Date: line to a posting, something is broken with their software, anyway. Since a program is supposed to spit out the date, and I think H&G even supply a routine to do so if you don't trust the one that comes with your system, anyone not following the RFC deserves, as several people (nearly everyone but you, it seems) have pointed out, to have their postings dropped on the floor. >Which is more valuable -- the "guarantee" that no old news will reappear, or >the "guarantee" that people's postings will get out to the net? I'd say the >latter. I'd say the former. -- Sean Eric Fagan | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; sef@kithrup.COM | I had a bellyache at the time." -----------------+ -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_) Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.