steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) (04/04/91)
I'm posting this message because mail to the offending site has gone unanswered, and because I'm getting repeats of this stuff. A Fidonet gateway is not properly formatting messages for Usenet and possibly not properly counting bytes when batching news. The results are that messages are being transmitted with the text in a single line, and that subsequent messages are being lost because rnews gets out of synch with the batch. (This may be a matter of the long line overflowing an input buffer.) Following is the bad news. I will fold the long lines; if they don't begin here with a > character they're a continuation. Note that the last line in each item is the #!rnews header of the following item. Item one: >From rnews Thu Apr 4 00:59:40 1991 >Path: cs.umn.edu!uc!shamash!timbuk!uunet!attcan!telly!moore!eastern!egsgate!FredMail >Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st >Subject: TT video modes >Message-ID: <669369942.1@egsgate.Fidonet.Org> >Date: 17 Mar 91 18:45:34 GMT >Sender: FredMail@p0.f98.n250.z1.Fidonet.Org >Lines: 4 > >Well the TT has a 320x480 mode with 256 colours at once. It has a 1280x960 mono mode and a 640x480 mode with 16 colours. It is also supposed to have a special gray scale modem (not too many people are aware of) that displays 256 levels of gray scale in the TT 320x480 low resolution. All this from a pallete of 4096. > >S.S. > >#! rnews 513 Item two: >Path: cs.umn.edu!uc!shamash!timbuk!uunet!attcan!telly!moore!eastern!egsgate!FredMail >Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st >Subject: Toaster & ST (was: re: LEXICOLOR, Atari TT/030,... >Message-ID: <669369942.3@egsgate.Fidonet.Org> >Date: 17 Mar 91 18:51:00 GMT >Sender: FredMail@p0.f98.n250.z1.Fidonet.Org >Lines: 4 > >Don't worry, we have the ParSEC board and some others coming from Lexicor Corporation. > >S.S. > >#! rnews 470 ---- Steve Yelvington / P. O. Box 38 / Marine on St. Croix, MN 55047 USA INTERNET: steve@thelake.mn.org UUCP: plains!umn-cs!thelake!steve GEnie: S.YELVINGTO2 Delphi: YELVINGTON