brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) (01/10/91)
Recently I have been posting ClariNet articles with up to 6 newsgroups. Typical ClariNet articles can have up to 4 groups, based on the number of classifications applied to the topic of the article. But then we can add special groups, such as high-priority newsgroups, and in the case I will talk about, alt.desert-shield and our special Iraq group clari.news.hot.iraq. Thus 7 newsgroups. (All meaningful, unlike a typical crosspost... :-() Anyway, some strange complaints are coming in. The articles are leaving here fine, but... One problem is the cancel messages we send out on these articles. Some people are getting them with the "Control: cancel" header gone. In addition, the Newsgroups line above is truncated, which makes me think this is the source of the trouble. Another strange problem comes from people complaining that new newsgroups are getting created, one for every word on the subject line. For example, from the article below newsgroups "Threat" "of" "war" and "intensifes" might be created. (This may be a notesfiles problem) Anybody have more information on this? On one hand, I don't want to cause people to have endless problems. But on the other hand, I don't mind seing broken software forced into submission. Xref: looking clari.news.gov.international:30248 clari.news.fighting:5743 clari.news.military:8057 clari.news.issues.conflict:3237 clari.news.hot.iraq:4223 alt.desert-shield:1251 clari.news.bulletin:1997 Path: looking!clarinews From: clarinews@clarinet.com (GAYLE YOUNG) Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international,clari.news.fighting,clari.news.military,clari.news.issues.conflict,clari.news.hot.iraq,alt.desert-shield,clari.news.bulletin Followup-to: alt.desert-shield Message-id: <22Riraq-wrapup_1ff@clarinet.com> Subject: Threat of war intensifies Keywords: international, non-usa government, government, fighting, military, war & peace, social issues Date: Wed, 9 Jan 91 20:27:10 EST Location: mideast, iraq Reply-to: info@clarinet.com (For More Information) ACategory: washington Slugword: iraq-wrapup Priority: urgent Format: breaking X-Supersedes: <21Riraq-wrapup_1ff@clarinet.com> ANPA: Wc: 852; Id: a2018; Sel: na--w; Adate: 1-9-825pes; Ver: ld Approved: clarinews@clarinet.com Codes: yigfbxp., yif.bxx., yim.bxx., yixwbiq. Note: (complete writethru -- perez de cuellar going to baghdad, israel reaction to aziz remarks, us diplomat, staff guaranteed safe exit from iraq if ordered out) Here's a cancel message for one of these. I don't know why the Control line is being deleted since the newsgroups line is not near it. But some people could be re-arranging the headers. Path: looking!clarinews From: clarinews@clarinet.com Newsgroups: clari.news.gov.international.ctl,clari.news.fighting.ctl,clari.news.military.ctl,clari.news.issues.conflict.ctl,clari.news.hot.iraq.ctl,alt.desert-shield.ctl,clari.news.top.world.ctl Message-id: <C1fd.3496@clarinet.com> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 91 13:53:02 EST Subject: x Control: cancel <9Riraq-wrapup_1fd@clarinet.com> Approved: y -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473