[news.software.b] C News error handling

ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) (04/03/91)

henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

> We need to do a major rethink of error handling policy at some point.

Is it request time yet ? :-)

What would be useful is a way of shutting up most of the mail that gets
sent to the admin.  Stuff like what newsgroups weren't localised, etc,
so that it can all be ignored until the admin comes back from his 5 year
sabbatical (:-) and says "Ok C News, please give me a nice terse summary
of steady-state problems with the news system.  Transient things like
bad/* which have long since disappeared should not appear in such a report.

I.e.:  I think that a mode of operation tailored for sites without admins
       would be useful.
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