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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Possible solution to C news dropping articles?
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Date: 11 Jun 91 12:39:55 GMT
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cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson) writes:
> In article <HPN532w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *H
> >For example, if you are using rn and one of your users is in the habit of
> >leaving out the spaces after the colons in a newsgroup header, then all his
> >postings will be silently dropped, but your sample article will pass the
> >test suite with no problems.
> 
> The issue here is user education and/or fixes to Pnews.

And then what happens when the next piece of similar software comes along?

Even if you can get all existing net software fixed to be perfect at
detecting errors before sending out articles -- which you can't -- that isn't
going to help people running new software.


mathew