amos@taux02.UUCP (Amos Shapir) (10/09/88)
In article <108@microsoft 25144,1,1.UUCP>, brentp@microsoft.UUCP (Brent Prindle) writes: > This is a test. This article arrived here several times; the tab in its message-id field seems to wreak havoc in the history file, and cause expire to complain of an unparsable date. Is there anything a newsadmin can do about it? -- Amos Shapir amos@nsc.com National Semiconductor (Israel) P.O.B. 3007, Herzlia 46104, Israel Tel. +972 52 522261 TWX: 33691, fax: +972-52-558322 34 48 E / 32 10 N (My other cpu is a NS32532)
jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) (10/11/88)
In article <197@taux02.UUCP> amos@taux02.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes: >In article <108@microsoft 25144,1,1.UUCP>, brentp@microsoft.UUCP (Brent Prindle) writes: >> This is a test. >This article arrived here several times; the tab in its message-id field >seems to wreak havoc in the history file, and cause expire to complain >of an unparsable date. Is there anything a newsadmin can do about it? My feed got it over *2000* times. The same bug has appeared in messages in rec.games.hack and in sci.space.shuttle, though not as many times. I gave up on expire fixing it, and simply issued 'cd /usr/spool/news/misc/test; rm *'. Time to send messages to postmaster@microsoft... -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC...>splut!< | Never ascribe to malice that which can uucp: uunet!nuchat! | adequately be explained by stupidity. hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- {killer,bellcore}!tness1! | "Those are indeed tough bananas."