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Original-To: rickert@cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
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Subject: Re: should batch/ibatch/image/et al apply to the article command? 
References: Your message of "Tue, 25 Jun 91 15:44:34 GMT."
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 21:11:47 -0400
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> During the recent flap over C news rejecting articles, it has been useful
> to occasionally fetch a rejected article for inspection so as to see what
> is wrong.

Or rather, would have been useful if the major NNTP sites hadn't cut off
NNTP access to all but a few feed sites.  From Toronto, we basically
couldn't retrieve articles from any of the interesting sites.  Surely
there should be some way to permit (indeed, mandate) low-volume remote
debugging while preventing full-scale news transmission.