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Article #3806Re: Really funny jokes being missed
From: dan
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 06:19
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 06:19
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Greetings, ** WARNING: Sarcasm intended: ** Why hasn't cnews been fixed to stop the rebroadcasting of news by broken sites like the fido net node currently going wild? It seems to me that filtering out/droping all or most news would fix the problem and save bandwidth too. Perhaps cnews could do something about followups as well, and don't forget crossposting. ** Seriousness: *** I would think that it would be better for the authors of cnews and other news systems to spend the time preventing their software from sending out old news, by fixing the conditions that cause old news to be sent, rather than filtering it from the net at large. -- Dan Boehlke Internet: dan@gac.edu Campus Network Manager BITNET: dan@gacvax1.bitnet Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN 56082 USA Phone: (507)933-7596
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!dan From: dan@gacvx2.gac.edu Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: <1991Jun12.001917.239@gacvx2.gac.edu> Date: 12 Jun 91 00:19:16 -0600 References: <1991Jun7.235143.12451@alembic.acs.com> <Z82B433w164w@mantis.co.uk> <517_=9&@uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota Lines: 22