Xref: utzoo news.admin:15106 news.software.b:8206 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: Date: 10 Jun 91 15:58:22 GMT References: <1991Jun7.235143.12451@alembic.acs.com> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 38 csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes: > I have a 60 MB news partition on this machine. If it fills up and > news gets dropped on the floor, that's life. Indeed, and this is a freak event which you can't do anything about. > If I run out of inodes, > I expire everything older than one day, and if some of it hasn't > been batched yet for transmission to my downstream sites, well, that's > life. This, again, is a freak event which you can't do anything to prevent. > And if some bit of defective software (or defective wetware) > produces a malformed header and C News chucks it into the bit bucket, > that also is life. But that's something you CAN do something about. I suspect that if your news spool filled up once every ten days or so, your downstream sites *would* complain. If through some random catastrophe my postings get deleted, then I don't care. What I *do* care about is when someone *deliberately* sets up his software to *repeatedly* delete my postings in order to "punish" me for using buggy software. > >Furthermore, if your attitude to people at other sites making errors is "fuc > >you", then presumably you don't send bounce messages for badly-addressed > >mail. > > Of course not. My good buddy, Mailer Daemon, does it for me. If he can. Well, your good buddy Cnews Pedantry Daemon ought to issue error reports on a similar basis. mathew