Xref: utzoo news.admin:15103 news.software.b:8203
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!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: <F31B429w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 10 Jun 91 15:33:26 GMT
References: <1991Jun7.160730.11982@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
Lines: 19

rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
> In article <oT8633w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *H
> >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.

That is silent *to the user*. I am speaking from the perspective of a user of
the system.

So FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A USER OF THE SYSTEM, why is it OK to silently
throw away news that person has written, but not OK to silently throw away
mail that person has written?


mathew