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csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes:
> I have a 60 MB news partition on this machine. If it fills up and
> news gets dropped on the floor, that's life.

Indeed, and this is a freak event which you can't do anything about.

>                                              If I run out of inodes,
> I expire everything older than one day, and if some of it hasn't
> been batched yet for transmission to my downstream sites, well, that's
> life.

This, again, is a freak event which you can't do anything to prevent.

>         And if some bit of defective software (or defective wetware)
> produces a malformed header and C News chucks it into the bit bucket,
> that also is life.

But that's something you CAN do something about.

I suspect that if your news spool filled up once every ten days or so, your
downstream sites *would* complain. If through some random catastrophe my
postings get deleted, then I don't care. What I *do* care about is when
someone *deliberately* sets up his software to *repeatedly* delete my postings
in order to "punish" me for using buggy software.

> >Furthermore, if your attitude to people at other sites making errors is "fuc
> >you", then presumably you don't send bounce messages for badly-addressed
> >mail.
> 
> Of course not. My good buddy, Mailer Daemon, does it for me. If he can.

Well, your good buddy Cnews Pedantry Daemon ought to issue error reports on a
similar basis.


mathew