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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Am _I_ breaking the new Cnews rules???
Message-ID: <17Lu46w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 20 Jun 91 16:26:35 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.062825.13193@panix.uucp>
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
> I've been following the notification debate carefully since it began. While
> I think Mathew is dead wrong,

...he says, and then proceeds to suggest a system to do exactly what I'm
suggesting should be done.  Ho hum.

Pity it doesn't work.

> 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.
[...]
> 1) This doesn't have to change one line of code in Cnews.

Actually, it does; because if you don't change C News, there's no guarantee
that the bad postings will make it to the sites doing the logging.


mathew