Henry Spencer:
Dropping of nonconforming articles is partly a necessity, since some
classes of nonconformance can cause major screwups in other news systems.
(Almost all the tightening of checking has been due to pressure from
others, not [Geoff's and my] own inclinations.)  In any case, (a) we hope
this is a [transient] thing that will become insignificant when people
clean up their act, and (b) you can (in principle) determine whether this
will happen to an article by a simple and objective standard.  Dropping
articles due to local configuration errors is much more insidious; one
thing that is very clear from our experience so far is that news software
*must not* assume competent and conscientious sysadmins.

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