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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.125255.4911@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 17:52:55 GMT
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In article <F31B429w164w@mantis.co.uk>, mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes:
> 
> So FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A USER OF THE SYSTEM, why is it OK to silently
> throw away news that person has written, but not OK to silently throw away
> mail that person has written?
> 
Hey, Henry!  Here's a new spec.  Let's change cnews so that every time
it drops an article on the floor it tries to find a mail message with
the same author and drop it, too.

dan