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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
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Date: 14 Jun 91 15:51:41 GMT
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rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
[ Unfunny "joke" about mailing error messages deleted ]
> 
>   When I wrote that, I did hope it would make Mathew (no, not Matthew) think
> more seriously about the real implications of what he has been continuously
> demanding for an interminable length of time.

I presume that you suffer from some sort of reading comprehension problem,
or perhaps that you have some bizarre obsession with straw-man arguments.

You should know by now that I am not proposing that mail be used as the
primary means of reporting errors.  Nor have I even suggested it as a
possibility for several weeks.

The only mail-based news error reporting I currently believe to be a sensible
idea is that which would be performed by one or two backbone sites.


mathew