Xref: utzoo news.admin:14980 news.software.b:8144 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew 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: Date: 5 Jun 91 14:59:21 GMT References: <1991Jun4.193039.18424@alembic.acs.com> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 42 csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes: > In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a * > >So you admit that the admins running C News are the ones responsible for > >articles being lost? That's very decent of you. > > Well of course we're the ones responsible. We installed the March 91 > Cnews patches *knowing* that it would mean that some articles would > be discarded. So what? > > Here's a clue for you, mathew: we are not obligated to ensure that > *any* article gets propagated. Well, no. But if you feed any other site, that site is probably under the impression that it is getting a feed of all the articles in the newsgroups it requests. I do hope you will explain that you are, in fact, deliberately and unnecessarily silently discarding articles whether they like it or not. Furthermore, if your attitude to people at other sites making errors is "fuck you", then presumably you don't send bounce messages for badly-addressed mail. > And if any article doesn't conform > to the relevant RFCs, there are damned good reasons for *not* > propagating it, as has already been explained to you in excruciating > detail. Indeed. If you want to throw away any article which is even slightly wrong, then that's entirely up to you. Just make sure you tell the people who think that you are forwarding articles. To turn your argument around: If a mail message is not correctly addressed, there are damn good reasons for *not* forwarding it, as has already been explained in excruciating detail. Therefore we should silently delete badly-addressed mail messages. Eventually people sending mail will correct their software and learn to be more careful so that erroneous messages do not occur. mathew