scoob@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Scoob) (06/16/91)
>>> In this thread we could read... > >>> Each user chooses which system and what software to use for posting to >>> Usenet. >> >>No. Each system administrator chooses the system and software. > >Rather, each system's administrator chooses the software, and each >user chooses administrator/system/software as a package. > >>So if you punish users, you will still end up punishing the innocent. > >Who said anything about punishment? I'm talking about the facts of >life, not trying to set policy. OK OK !!! how about trying to get things to work instead of finding the bad guy or the innocent... It's true that the poor user is innocent in all that. (But can one be innocent by ingorance?) Let's just make sure that people know or have an easy way to know weither their posting software works. An easy way is if your feed is a CNEWS site. You simply post a news to something like gnu.test and half a dozen of major sites in the US send you an automated mail saying that your news got to their place (ET VOILA !!!). Now, it would be a nice thing if instead of fighting over who gets to sit beside Henry at the party, we started identifying the "real BAD guys", i.e. the faulty posting softwares... How about the popular ones (sorry I only know about UNIX ones): rn, trn, nn, gnus, gnews, xrn ???? Do they post valid articles? Let's name the GOOD and nane + correct the bad. If the guy fills his header by hand, let him do it. But it's his responsability to write a "LEGAL" header... SO, WHO WILL TROW THE FIRST STONE AT THE BAD GUYS ??? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Marcotte scoob@vlsi.polymtl.ca Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal tel: (514) 340-4476 Laboratoire de recherche en VLSI ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) (06/19/91)
According to scoob@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Scoob): > How about the popular ones (sorry I only know about UNIX ones): > rn, trn, nn, gnus, gnews, xrn ???? Do they post valid articles? Neither rn nor trn guarantees that the article it generates is valid. However, a C News site will reject an invalid article after it is submitted by rn or trn. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip> "You can call Usenet a democracy if you want to. You can call it a totalitarian dictatorship run by space aliens and the ghost of Elvis. It doesn't matter either way." -- Dave Mack