From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 16:57:13 CST
Brad Templeton <brad@templetons.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 10:05:06AM -0500, David C Lawrence wrote:
> > Relay agents that do not check valid newsgroups are a scourge and
> > should be banned. Their net effect is that sites are encouraged to
> > add bogus groups because it appears that they are valid and have
> > widespread existence, when in truth they might only really exist at a
> > couple of hosts but are propagated widely because of careless relay
> > agents.
>
> Actually that's not as bad as the other hting they do, which is
> propagate un-approved articles in moderated groups. I can almost
> buy passing on an article in a group you don't have so that you can
> avoid having a list of all groups -- but passing on one you know to
> be invalid is the real sin.
Yes, that's a good point. Enforcing it will mean keeping all the known
moderated groups in active (or the equivalent) but it's well worth it.
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me