[net.news.b] news oddities

davec (03/29/83)

I've seen two oddities lately in our (version 2.9) news system.

1. Somebody tried to submit an article and got the "You didn't really
   want to post THAT" message.  The article contained 514 characters;
   the code in inews.c looks like it is only checking for a count of
   less than 5 characters before giving that message.

   We were able to submit the article only after padding it out with
   some more characters.

2. Lately zehntel has been sending out two copies of every article (but
   both with the same article id).  Instead of being suppressed as
   duplicates, inews seems to be accepting both of them.

Has anybody else seen these symptoms before?

Dave Clemans
Tektronix