Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Suggested Improvements to C News Error Handling
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.230703.21677@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 23:07:03 GMT
References: <Pgkw41w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <Pgkw41w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis-consultants.co.uk (mathew) writes:
>IMPROVED ERROR HANDLING FOR C NEWS ...

Slightly to my surprise :-), this one is not half bad.  It needs some
small adjustments to deal with implementation realities -- for example,
you cannot determine the article's date without first doing at least
limited header parsing -- and more thought needs to go into really
outre' failure modes like floods of garbage from insane gateways, but
it's not out of the question.

The nicest aspect of it, in my opinion, is that it doesn't have to be
done in relaynews at all.  Given our existing log entries, plus the
provisions we've been muttering about for another pseudogroup or
something to save certain classes of rejected articles, it can be
implemented as completely separate software that puts log entries
together with articles and posts failure reports.
-- 
"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
