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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: <81Z2445w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 24 Jun 91 16:08:42 GMT
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Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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mrm@sceard.Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) writes:
> In article <DNJs414w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *
> [...]
> >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.

Yes. "We" being "the population of Usenet".

>                                                     If the error is reported
> through the generation of a new message,

It isn't.  It's reported through replacing a bad message with a good one.

>         It is a waste of a global resource to solve a local problem.

News sites barfing badly-formatted news articles onto the net is not a "local
problem".  It affects everyone.


mathew