Xref: utzoo news.software.b:8361 news.sysadmin:3878 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!hela!wotan.iti.org!scs From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.sysadmin Subject: Re: LET'S NAME THE GUILTY POSTING SOFTWARE!!! Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 91 13:43:18 GMT References: <1991Jun19.154645.11885@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Jun19.172544.32267@mp.cs.niu.edu> <6098@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1991Jun20.114358.4871@mp.cs.niu.edu> Sender: usenet@iti.org (Hela News Manager) Organization: Industrial Technology Institute Lines: 24 Nntp-Posting-Host: wotan.iti.org rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: >In article <6098@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes: >>Mini-inews is NOT a transport. It is just a feed into NNTP which in turn >>feeds it into the REAL inews in the news transport. THAT is where all these >>checks should occur. > But that is exactly the point. mini-inews does not do the error checking >of the REAL inews, but if effectively isolates the poster from the REAL >inews making good feedback difficult. Good point. What we really need is a "standard library" that will do syntax checking on article headers. Make it real portable, PD, and hand it out to the world. Henry/Geoff, is this section of C-news "libraryizable"? (gads, what a horrid neologism) Once we have this, adding said function to mini-inews, waffle, etc, etc, becomes relatively trivial. It doesn't solve the problem of installation that don't upgrade, but it's a solid step to make the situation better in the future. -- "If we don't provide support to our users someone is bound to confuse us with Microsoft." -- Charles "Chip" Yamasaki