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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.180726.4461@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 91 18:07:26 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.115245.26336@mp.cs.niu.edu> <89HF414w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <89HF414w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes:
>rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>> 
>>  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 your usenet neighbors were to place in their sys files (please, please)

ME:all,!news.admin,!news.software.bin/all::

your articles on this subject would go nowhere.  Is this supposed to be in
news.announce.newusers ?

  However, I have a proposed solution to your problems:

  Attention all Cnews sites.  Please place the following commands near the
end of your newsdaily scripts:

	cd $NEWSCTL
	grep ' - <' log.o | \
	  grep -v 'duplicate$' | \
	  grep -v `cat whoami` | mail mathew@mantis.co.uk

  There.  If enough admins pick this up you will soon be fully informed of all
articles of yours dropped due to bad headers or dates.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940