sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) (06/26/91)
On Jun 25, 9:11pm, geoff@world.std.com wrote: } Subject: Re: should batch/ibatch/image/et al apply to the article command? } > During the recent flap over C news rejecting articles, it has been useful } > to occasionally fetch a rejected article for inspection so as to see what } > is wrong. } } Or rather, would have been useful if the major NNTP sites hadn't cut off } NNTP access to all but a few feed sites. From Toronto, we basically } couldn't retrieve articles from any of the interesting sites. Surely } there should be some way to permit (indeed, mandate) low-volume remote } debugging while preventing full-scale news transmission. }-- End of excerpt from geoff@world.std.com My comment earlier about sendmail WIZARD was intended in to indicate that many tools placed in programs for right thinking people to use for debugging also become back-doors for wrong thinking people to exploit. I would be very much opposed to mandating such a back door. -- Stan internet: sob@bcm.tmc.edu Director, Networking Olan uucp: rutgers!bcm!sob and Systems Support Barber Opinions expressed are only mine. Baylor College of Medicine