Xref: utzoo news.admin:14902 news.software.b:8118 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <1991Jun3.195955.15328@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 3 Jun 91 19:59:55 GMT References: Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 44 In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes: >brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes: >> From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) >> If C News wishes to be pedantic about the headers, it should report its >> findings to someone who can do something about it. If it can't send its >> little pedantic reports to someone who can do something about the problem, >> then it shouldn't be pedantic. >> >> It DOES, in the form of daily reports > >No, it DOES NOT. The daily reports are not sent to someone who can do >something about the problem; they are sent to someone who can ask someone >else to do something about the problem. There is an important difference, >which we can sum up by observing that the larger the number of humans >involved in propogating a message, the less reliable the propogation is. Your mistake, not Brendan's. The trouble is, you are acting very much as an injured party, just because your articles were dropped by Cnews at another site. You were not an injured party. No other site has any obligation whatsoever to carry your news. When a site discards an article, the only injured parties are those who read news at that site, and the sites that are directly fed. There are several sites around which silently discard all articles posted to 'alt.sex.pictures'. Do they have an obligation to send email to the authors of those articles? I don't carry any 'alt' at my site. Must I notify all authors of articles in alt.*? Cnews correctly notifies the responsible party - namely the news admin at the site where the article is dropped. Many of us would like to go a step further and try to get word back to the originating site. But we recognize that this is very difficult to do in a safe but effective manner. The discussion on this topic before you joined in already revealed the concern. What we are all reacting to is your attitude of acting as if everyone is picking on you. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940