Xref: utzoo news.admin:14905 news.software.b:8120 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!sloane From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <1991Jun3.154325.31235@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 3 Jun 91 20:43:25 GMT References: <1991May31.171651@mccall.com> Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 19 In article , mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes: > By the latter I mean that those who want me to shut up about this issue will > have to convince me that C News's behaviour is correct; I won't just give up. If you want to see what happens when a message is sent to the author of an invalid message, try posting an invalid control message, for example: Control: Cancel <1@site.uucp> I once did this by accident (my email gateway dumped some bounce messages to the net, and I thought I would be nice and clean them up). It turns out that notes sends email to the originator of the invalid control message. I couldn't get much done for several days due to all the email I got. -- USmail: Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045 E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444