Xref: utzoo news.admin:15221 news.software.b:8252 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!transfer!lectroid!jjmhome!crackers!cpoint!frog!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <9106091809.53@rmkhome.UUCP> Date: 10 Jun 91 03:09:00 GMT References: <1991May31.171651@mccall.com> Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Lines: 30 In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes: >tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) writes: >> However, as I've said, I have no problem with the transition to official >> standards, just the way it was accomplished. I do firmly agree that all >> software that generates non-compliant headers should be fixed. I disagree >> that a reasonable and effective way to accomplish that is to simply ignore >> all news from sites that run such software, without bothering to tell them >> about it. > >This is my position as well. > >> On the other hand, I've said that I don't know how many times, and the >> responses are generally on another tangent, so I give up. > >I have no plans to give up, because (a) I believe that C News's current >behaviour is damaging to the people who use Usenet, and (b) I'm exceptionally >stubborn when fighting things which I genuinely believe to be wrong. > >By the latter I mean that those who want me to shut up about this issue will >have to convince me that C News's behaviour is correct; I won't just give up. I have listened to this debate for a while, and I am curious about one aspect. Who pays for email into your site? I understand it is fairly expensive to send email to the UK. If 100 postings from your site each produce 500 bad header email messages in one day, who pays for this? I believe Henry and Geoff had monetary concerns in mind when they did the most recent version of Cnews. Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP frog!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP