Xref: utzoo news.admin:15205 news.software.b:8242 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!uwm.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!ox.com!heifetz!rotag!kevin From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <1991Jun1.233346.2016@rotag.mi.org> Date: 1 Jun 91 23:33:46 GMT References: <1991May28.203010.16135@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: Who, me??? Lines: 33 In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) writes: >rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: >> ...we are tired at your continued attempts to >> harrass the totally innocent designers of Cnews, and the totally innocent >> sysadmins who have made an honest and considered judgement to use Cnews. > >But C News is the program which is meting out the punishment! > >Or is it "only following orders", as the famous saying goes? Perhaps "taking out the garbage" is a more apt term. Or "separating the chaff from the wheat". Mathew: it is not the job of C News to de-louse every bad header it sees, nor to yak-yak to humans about the sad state of posting software. It's purpose is to transfer news to and from disks and networks as smoothly and efficiently as possible. C NEWS IS A NEWS *TRANSPORT*, NOT A NEWS *SCHOOLMARM*!! Given the obvious advantages and increasing popularity of C News over other news transports, and the fact that it follows the RFC in this regard, I consider it perfectly reasonable to expect sites with broken posting software to adapt to C News, rather than the other way around. Why should the tail wag the dog? ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^---- Ob. Hackneyed Phrase >mathew - Kevin CNEWS MUST LIVE! CNEWS MUST FLOURISH!