chet@Advansoft.COM (Chet Wood) (07/26/90)
I periodically get messages from c news that it tossed an article (
saving the whole batch it was in )
Looking at the batch, I see the article tossed always follows a
strange-looking article:
#! rnews 2048
[ followed by 2048 bytes of nulls and other 8-bit characters,
interspersed with what looks like hostnames, batch file names, lock
file names, etc., etc. ]
followed by:
#! rnews nnn
and the nnn-byte article which gets tossed.
The tossing occurs, I presume, because the 2048th byte of the weird
article is not separate by a newline from the #! signalling the start
of the tossed article.
What are these weird articles and why do they confuse relaynews?
thanks..
Chet.
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