Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Suggested Improvements to C News Error Handling Message-ID: <1991Jun26.230703.21677@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 23:07:03 GMT References: Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article mathew@mantis-consultants.co.uk (mathew) writes: >IMPROVED ERROR HANDLING FOR C NEWS ... Slightly to my surprise :-), this one is not half bad. It needs some small adjustments to deal with implementation realities -- for example, you cannot determine the article's date without first doing at least limited header parsing -- and more thought needs to go into really outre' failure modes like floods of garbage from insane gateways, but it's not out of the question. The nicest aspect of it, in my opinion, is that it doesn't have to be done in relaynews at all. Given our existing log entries, plus the provisions we've been muttering about for another pseudogroup or something to save certain classes of rejected articles, it can be implemented as completely separate software that puts log entries together with articles and posts failure reports. -- "We're thinking about upgrading from | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry