Xref: utzoo news.admin:15374 news.software.b:8351 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: Date: 19 Jun 91 13:36:24 GMT References: <285E73EC.3723@tct.com> Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 46 chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes: > 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." Or in other words, "C News hides bad articles from my site". Same difference. Note that you completely ignored the actual POINT of the comment, which is that C News does nothing to SOLVE the problem of buggy posting software. > >I'm suggesting error-reporting because that would actually treat the cause o > >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. Hahah! Cunning. You conveniently fail to mention that the log entries you are talking about are on some other machine half way across the planet. Even if we were talking about log entries vs. email on the same machine, I don't think you would really believe that email was as easy to ignore accidentally. > Kent's concern about a local flood of bad news generating a global > flood of error messages may need to be addressed. The worst possible case is that we get one short error report for each bad article. This can easily be improved on; for example, we can make the error reporting program keep a log of sites it has issued an error for, and clear the log after (say) a week. So at most, we then get one error report per source site of a bad article per week. The recent Fidonet barf would have been no problem under such a scheme. mathew