woods@hao.UUCP (Greg "Bucket" Woods) (10/01/84)
At this site, we have received dozens of articles that have a path ending
with ..ulysses!someone, which the content and signature of the articles
show did not originate at ulysses. Also, the organization field of these
articles has been replaced with AT&T somethingorother. Many of these
articles appear to have originated at Purdue.
Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone know what the &%#@*! is going on?!?!?
--Greg
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"Every silver lining has a touch of grey..."woods@hao.UUCP (Greg "Bucket" Woods) (10/08/84)
Well, I think the problem is that someone (including our site, apparently) is
truncating very long path names. Here is one example, article ID is
<9217@watmath.UUCP>:
Path: hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amd!decwrl!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!akgua!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!pyuxww!gamma!ulysses!burl!cl
I suspect that path after ulysses should have been
"burl!clyde!watmath!saquigley"
as that article was posted by Sophie Quigley whose path I have seen a lot.
On our system, "readnews" shows the path as "...ulysses!bur", showing
that it is not only truncated as stored, but also by "readnews" when displaying
the path. Looks to me as though there is a maximum path length limit and some
of these paths are exceeding that length. I'm willing to bet that the sites
"downstream" from us see the path truncated at a different point.
We just converted to news version 2.10.2, and I'll bet it isn't a coincidence
that I have just started seeing path truncation now. How about it, netnews
gurus? What path do you folks in Boulder see for this article? Anyone else
noticed path truncation?
Copies of this have been sent to the site administrator at ulysses (who
would seem to be free from responsibility for this), the SA here, and net.news .
--Greg
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