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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Learning about dropped articles
Message-ID: <NFoq418w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 18 Jun 91 13:24:34 GMT
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barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P Barrett) writes:
> Mathew, I sympathise with you about having your articles dropped without
> notification, but frankly I wish you would shut up now.  While blaming
> others for your problems might be emotionally satisfying, it is not very
> productive.

I am not blaming others for the articles being badly formatted.  I am saying
that responding to an error by throwing away input without telling the user
is unacceptable behaviour and should be fixed.

You want productive?  I've suggested a mechanism for reporting errors.  I've
discussed it here and also by mail with Henry Spencer.  I've offered to do
the work myself to implement it.  So far, nobody has pointed out any
fundamental problems with the method proposed.

Of course, now some idiot will say "Well, isn't receiving four billion mail
messages a problem?", or will drag some other straw-man out of the grave yet
again.


mathew