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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*)
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Subject: Re: Dropping non-complient articles (Was: Really funny jokes being m
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Date: 19 Jun 91 13:15:57 GMT
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rick@pavlov.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller) writes:
> like some other people, I have tried to keep silent but this latest set of
> a postings is too much. Mathew, will you please just shut up. No one really
> has seen anything new to the discussion from you in quite a while.

Of course not.  They haven't either come up with a solution to the problem,
or indicated what is wrong with the proposed solution using news to propogate
the error messages.

All they keep doing is making idiotic statements like "Nyaah, you can't send
fifty billion mail messages from each site", or "Nyaah, C News is free, so it
doesn't matter if it loses articles", or "Nyaah, who cares if Usenet is
unreliable?"

As long as they keep propping up straw-man arguments I'll keep pointing out
that they are irrelevant.

> 2) I really do wonder why you are not being as hostile to the author of your
> news reader software since this is the component that is generating buggy 
> headers.

I'm not being as hostile to him because he fixed his cock-up immediately when
told about it, whereas Henry won't even admit he's made a mistake.

> 3) In any case, you will accomplish nothing more than has been accomplished.
> We now have administrators who will post dropped article information so you
> can see if your precious postings are being dropped.

No I can't.  If my articles are dropped, they'll be dropped before they get
to those administrators' sites.


mathew