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From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Responsibility for non-RFC articles
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.130655.29919@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 25 Jun 91 13:06:55 GMT
References: <2861EF63.1C12@tct.com> <1991Jun23.040730.26860@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1991Jun23.230303.19830@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
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 mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:
> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:

>> A response from a misc.test autoreply daemon
>> provides proof only that your article meets the
>> compliance checks of _some_ path of machines
>> between your site and that autoreply site.

> Maybe somebody should design an autoreply daemon
> that does strict checking against all the news
> RFCs and replies with a conformance report?

No question, that is the first truly _useful_
suggestion in this long discussion.

Kent, the man from xanth.
<xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>