Xref: utzoo news.admin:15447 news.software.b:8391 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ucselx!berick!optigfx!sceard!mrm From: mrm@sceard.Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <1991Jun21.152743.22927@sceard.Sceard.COM> Date: 21 Jun 91 15:27:43 GMT References: <285E73EC.3723@tct.com> Reply-To: mrm@Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) Organization: The Mole and Badger Association of Northern San Diego County Lines: 18 In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*) writes: [...] > >The worst possible case is that we get one short error report for each bad >article. > Your "we" is a bit centric, isn't it? The worst case is that every site that gets the error reporting newsgroup gets the report. If the error is reported through the generation of a new message, then perhaps even more sites get the report. It is a waste of a global resource to solve a local problem. Your solution is inefficient and not well thought. Questions aside: Is the result of dropping mathew's news articles silently equivalent to silently placing mathew in a kill file? Has his effective distribution coverage increased or decreased? -- Mike Murphy mrm@Sceard.COM ucsd!sceard!mrm +1 619 598 5874