Several major sites post summaries of articles dropped at their site as
non-conforming, usually including article Message-ID:s and the reason for
non-conformance.

These include:

    Newsgroups: news.lists,news.admin.misc
    From: rsalz@rodan.UU.NET (Rich Salz)
    Subject: Articles rejected at news.uu.net during the past week
    Organization: UUNET Communications

        The articles listed below were rejected by InterNetNews at
        news.uu.net during the past week because they do not conform to
        standard interpretation of Internet RFCs 822 and 1036. [...]
        news.uu.net is also configured to reject articles that are more
        than 14 days old.

        [Reasons for rejecting include: duplicate header; no article body;
        illegal header (e.g., not in word-colon-space format); unapproved
        article posted to a moderated group; whitespace in "Newsgroups"
        header; required header missing; posting with "Distribution: local";
        bad "Date" header; "Date" header in future (when received); invalid
        Message-ID.

    Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
    From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
    Subject: Non-compliant articles, week ending DD Month YY

        The following is a list of articles which were dropped by the
        news software here for a non-compliant header.  [Reasons: header
        contains non-header line; unapproved article in moderated group;
        message ID not bracketed with <>; no Subject or empty Subject;
        no From: header; no Date or unparsable Date; date in future (when
        received).

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