Xref: utzoo news.admin:15362 news.software.b:8342 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!uunet!sci34hub!gary From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Learning about dropped articles Message-ID: <1991Jun19.133758.6221@sci34hub.sci.com> Date: 19 Jun 91 13:37:58 GMT References: <_-D-LMH@cs.widener.edu> Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) Organization: SCI Technology, Inc., Huntsville, Al. Lines: 47 In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes: =brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes: => mathew@mantis.co.uk wrote: => >karl.kleinpaste@osc.edu writes: => >> ... stuff ... => >New here, aren't you? => Thump. =I take it that's an expression of disagreement. Perhaps you would like to =show me a few of his previous articles on this subject? They don't seem to =have reached this site -- bad date lines, perhaps? -- hence my assumption =that his foolish posting was due to his jumping into the middle of a =discussion he hadn't been following, and my comment to that effect. Karl has been on the net for more than the two years this site has been. One doesn't have to post to follow a discussion. Matthew, try writing a little script that scans your history file for "osc.edu", examines each of the articles found for the string "From: karl.kleinpaste", and returns a count of the articles containing it. The number might suprise you. I've been following this discussion, and this is my first posting in it. Initially, you had a concern--that something was quietly dropping some of your articles. It's been shown that while they are being dropped, there is note made of the dropping. Your continued harping on the matter has gone well beyond useful to annoyingly repetitive, and has now degenerated to flaming. You're in the same position of a motorist who's been accustomed to doing 50 in a 35 zone, and finally got a ticket ("But I've been doing it for years, and got away with it!"). Until you can come up with something useful, like a RFC compliance checker for new postings, drop it. (If you want to write such a checker, I'll bet Henry and Geoff would be glad to let you use parts of the C news code.) Otherwise, expect to see less and less discussion as people add the subject or your to their kill files. -- Gary Heston System Mismanager and technoflunky uunet!sci34hub!gary or My opinions, not theirs. SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com I support drug testing. I believe every public official should be given a shot of sodium pentathol and ask "Which laws have you broken this week?".