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From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.073739.1131@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 13 Jun 91 07:37:39 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.115245.26336@mp.cs.niu.edu> <89HF414w164w@mantis.co.uk> <1991Jun12.180726.4461@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell)
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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In article <1991Jun12.180726.4461@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>  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.

Two things.

One, this won't actually work, because we (mantis's feed) run the latest
Cnews, so any bad articles shouldn't get out onto the rest of the net.

Two, more importantly, encouraging this kind of net.terrorism isn't very
nice, IMHO.  We are on quite an expensive link to ukc, so not only will
this mean that we have to suffer, but quite a bit of uknet has to suffer
in a degradation of performance from ukc.

Before you say this was a joke, I'd like to say that advocating this
sort of thing is not really a good idea, joke or not.

Dylan.
-- 
Matthew J Farwell: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk || ...!uunet!ukc!ibmpcug!dylan
	But you're wrong Steve. You see, its only solitaire.