Xref: utzoo news.admin:15343 news.software.b:8324 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!olivea!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <285E73EC.3723@tct.com> Date: 18 Jun 91 20:58:20 GMT References: <1991Jun14.044639.16135@alembic.acs.com> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 26 According to mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*): >The Problem is that there is buggy software. The C News >silent-article-dropping does nothing to solve the problem, it merely hides >the problem from the rest of the net. The word is not "hide", it's "protect." As in, "C News protects me and my neighbors from bad articles that arrive at my site." >I'm suggesting error-reporting because that would actually treat the cause of >the problem, rather than the symptoms. Hardly. It enlarges the set of people who are notified about the problem. But E-Mail notices can be ignored just as easily as log entries. >I believe that news-based error reports with a modified message-ID are an >adequate and safe solution; they are likely to get to the site or gateway >sending out the duff articles, and they will not flood the net. Kent's concern about a local flood of bad news generating a global flood of error messages may need to be addressed. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT , "You can call Usenet a democracy if you want to. You can call it a totalitarian dictatorship run by space aliens and the ghost of Elvis. It doesn't matter either way." -- Dave Mack