[net.followup] net.jokes NOT net.joke

stevans (11/19/82)

There is no way you could put in every conceivable stupid alias
people could think up.  Bad newsgroups should merely be rejected,
and the corresponding articles ignored.

Mark Stevans, U of Rochester, NY
(seismo or allegra)!rochester!stevans

tim (11/19/82)

On the idea of aliasing incorrect newsgroups to correct:
If the redirection didn't get done at the original site,
then it would get done at all later sites, resulting in
huge numbers of the article being posted.
					 Tim Maroney
					 unc!tim

sjb (11/20/82)

Then either it's not working or not all notesfile sites have
that alias, because I have seen net.joke entries from notesfile
users.  Also, you should not alias something to net.news.newsi
or net.game.rogu; USE THE FULL NAME!  While newsgroup names are
only unique up to 14 characters, they are NOT restricted to that
limit.