Xref: utzoo news.admin:15028 news.software.b:8172 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.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: <1991Jun7.160730.11982@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 7 Jun 91 16:07:30 GMT References: <1991Jun6.120359.5946@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 33 In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes: >rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: >> Mail is very different from news. > >So tell me: why is it OK to silently throw away news a person has written, >but not OK to silently throw away mail a person has written? Firstly C-news does not silently throw away news. It reports it to the local administrator. Secondly email is from one person to another. One of the two should be notified. If you can notify the recipient, you can get the message there, so you might as well. You are not inflicting it on many sites (mailing lists excepted, which my earlier posting said should have stricter standards). If you are having trouble configuring news, you can use email to get help. If you are having trouble configuring email you don't have much else to fall back on, so mail systems should be somewhat tolerant and still try to deliver. On the other hand, recipients who receive bad mail, and cannot reply directly, should complain so that the sender is pressured to fix his broken mail system. >So do I. All that I ask is that they report errors. They do. You just don't like whom they report the errors to. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940