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From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 13:59:47 -0400
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On Jun 25,  9:11pm, geoff@world.std.com wrote:
} Subject: Re: should batch/ibatch/image/et al apply to the article command?
} > 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.
}-- End of excerpt from geoff@world.std.com

My comment earlier about sendmail WIZARD was intended in to indicate that
many tools placed in programs for right thinking people to use for debugging
also become back-doors for wrong thinking people to exploit. I would be
very much opposed to mandating such a back door.




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