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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: <883o411w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 17 Jun 91 16:48:54 GMT
References: <1991Jun14.044639.16135@alembic.acs.com>
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes:
> One of the most common causes of these "freak" events is when some
> idiot screws around with news headers and then dumps a huge volume
> of ancient articles into the net. This is one of things that Cnews
> now prevents. 

Nobody is suggesting that it should not continue to do so.

> >>         And if some bit of defective software (or defective wetware)
> >> produces a malformed header and C News chucks it into the bit bucket,
> >> that also is life.
> >
> >But that's something you CAN do something about.
> 
> I could, yes. But why should I?

For the same reason you presumably issue bounce messages for failed mail.


mathew