furuta (04/09/83)
Of late there has been grumbling about truncated articles in net.sources, particularly one ending with **Sender closed connection*** == Network Mail from host uw-beaver on Fri Apr 1 04:09:12 === Well, I am sorry to have to admit that it's my fault--mea culpa. Our link between uw-beaver and cornell uses batched news and a mail link which passes through BBN's smtp server. Unfortunately this server has the major mis-feature of delivering partially transmitted messages when the connection fails during the transfer. Personally, I think I'd prefer that it just discard the message since the sender keeps resending the message until it arrives, but that's the way things are. I've been aware of the potential for truncated messages for perhaps a week and a half and have been testing code here on Beaver for a couple of days which, I hope, corrects it. The code should be installed on Cornell within the next couple of days. If you notice future evidence of news problems caused by transmission failures between uw-beaver and other sites (particularly cornell and potentially uw-june and uw-vlsi in the future), feel free to let me know about them. --Rick ...decvax!microsoft!uw-beaver!furuta (uucp) ...ucbvax!lbl-csam!uw-beaver!furuta or Furuta@uw-beaver (ARPAnet) Furuta@Washington (if uw-beaver doesn't work)