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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: <89HF414w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 12 Jun 91 12:37:30 GMT
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rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
> In article <F31B429w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *
> >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?
> 
>  The email was written and addressed to a specific recipient.  The news
> article was put on the net on a "take it or leave it" basis.

Really?  Where does it say this?  I don't recall anything in the
news.announce.newusers postings saying "Your articles may be discarded
silently before they reach the net if you make a typo".

If the conditions of using Usenet really are that you have to accept 0%
confidence in its reliability, then I think that ought to be spelled out.


mathew