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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: LET'S NAME THE GUILTY POSTING SOFTWARE!!!
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.192501.23864@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
References: <1991Jun19.154645.11885@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991Jun19.172544.32267@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1991Jun19.182811.19812@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 19:25:01 GMT
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In article <1991Jun19.182811.19812@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1991Jun19.172544.32267@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>>...the actual date checking is done by relaynews at the next news
>>site down the line, and this is where the article will be silently dropped
>>with no feedback to the Author...
>
>Unfortunately, there is absolutely and positively no way inews can check
>this, and it's not just a problem at the next site down the line.  *Any*

  Why don't you discuss the issue, and not something else?

  If my site holds a month of history, and the next site only holds two
weeks, that is just too bad.  I agree with that.

  If my site holds one month of history, and a user here posts an article
with a 1980 date on it, the local inews does not complain, the local
relaynews does not complain.  It is dropped down the line.  The fact that
it is dropped down the line is just too bad.  But the fact that inews DID
NOT COMPLAIN is just a design error, which ought to be fixed in your next
release.

 Don't tell me that "Unfortunately, there is absolutely and positively no
way inews can check this", because that is absolutely and positively not
a believable position.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940
