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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed
Message-ID: <7VP1314w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 4 Jun 91 12:58:29 GMT
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sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> 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
[...]

This is Classic Objection #1: "You can't have every site send a mail message
to the author of the bad article!"

Classic Response #1: "Very good. If you actually read through this
discussion, you'll note that nobody is suggesting that every site send a mail
message to the author of the bad article."

> 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.

Notes is broken, then. Let's fix it.


mathew