donn@sdchema.UUCP (Donn Seeley) (02/20/84)
After a long period of frustration at not being able to find the perpetrator of article truncations, I think I may have found the answer. The article <725@linus.UUCP> arrived at our site with the front end munged and with a nice short path. Moreover, the format of the article suggested that it began with a tab, which is the source of a well-known bug. A test article I sent that went through all the sites on the path of <725@linus.UUCP> except linus came back to me intact, even though it began with a tab. This is hardly conclusive, but it at least suggests that someone at linus ought to check their software. I have sent mail to linus!usenet and linus!root containing the bug fix, but if (as is often the case) no one reads mail intended for either 'usenet' or 'root', then the effort will have been for nought. If you are reading this article on linus or an immediate neighbor of linus, could you see that the appropriate authorities have a look at root's mail? It sure would be nice to zap the bug at a fairly major site like linus... Donn Seeley UCSD Chemistry Dept. ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn 32 52' 30"N 117 14' 25"W (619) 452-4016 sdcsvax!sdchema!donn@noscvax
ggr@hudson.UUCP (Guy Riddle) (02/29/84)
No, it's not linus. One property of the bug is that it doesn't affect articles posted locally, so if an article posted on linus was affected, it must have been done be a machine other than linus. === Guy Riddle == AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway ===
smk@axiom.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer) (04/03/84)
I DON'T BELIEVE IT! Of all articles to be reposted, this one comes up
again. Note that the original here was from Feb and linus does NOT
have the bug.
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--steve kramer
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linus!axiom!smk@mitre-bedford (MIL)dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) (04/04/84)
It looks like there was an ENORMOUS amount of old junk queued somewhere. Watmath keeps stuff for 4 weeks so anything old we see here is even older than that. And it's still arriving! Does it really take that long to propagate around the net, or is it still being released from somewhere?