Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Am _I_ breaking the new Cnews rules???
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.163157.14088@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 16:31:57 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.062825.13193@panix.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Jun19.062825.13193@panix.uucp> alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>Anyway, is this posting being seen?

Yes.

>... why have my two postings
>on the error-notification problem gone unanswered?

Possibly because everyone in a position to make intelligent comments is
sick of the subject.

>To recap (briefly), my second, ultra-low-tech solution, is to simply collect
>a log of sites that generate bad messages. Every month or so, extract a list
>of offending sites, and send them each _one_ mail message...

A reasonable idea if done by a *few* sites.  Doing it everywhere is bad news
due to the flood-the-mailbox problem.  You can't rely on a bad message's
propagation being localized enough to keep this under control.
-- 
"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry