From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 04:44:47 CST
In <3C84EA23.521F871A@cisco.com> Martin Djernaes <djernaes@cisco.com> writes:
>> Martin Djernaes <djernaes@cisco.com> wrote:
>> I think that if you check the archives you'll find that a substantially
>> similar idea was launched during the wee beginnings of this group -- lo
>> these many years ago -- and was discarded for several reasons. Mostly
>> though, it was because the current solution, while not perfect, is the best
>> practical compromise under the circumstances and taking historical usage
>> into account.
>I strongly disagree since the current situation encurrage the admins of the
>news servers to discards perfecly legal messages without even taking action
>to inform the poster. This is a very bad choice, and could be discurraged.
>With your proposal you are pushing this wrecked view of "what should be
>done".
Bollocks! Where does it say that admins are to discard anything on the
basis of what is in the Subject line?
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