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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: <7HiH413w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 13 Jun 91 14:38:05 GMT
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rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
> In article <89HF414w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *
> >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 ?

Whether a site receives a newsgroup is visible to readers at that site.
Whether the site silently discards postings containing typos is not visible
to people at that site.  The two situations are therefore entirely different.

>   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:
[ Dull UNIX script deleted ]

Wow, what a screamingly amusing joke.  It was almost as amusing that time as
it was the last time someone made it during this discussion, or the time
before, or the time before that.

Might I suggest that your time would be better spent writing code to fix C
News rather than writing geeky UNIX-hacker jokes?


mathew