[net.news] A different form of line eater bug!

spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) (09/26/84)

I'm getting all sorts of mail about two articles I posted being
truncated along the way.  These weren't eaten at the front, but
suffered a loss from the back end.  I don't know if this is related to
the fact that I've brought up news 2.10.2 at our site, but I'd
certainly like to track this down.

If you've received any articles posted from "gatech" or "gitpyr" with a
posting version of 2.10.2, please let me know if they arrived intact or
truncated.  I'd especially like to know about the following two
articles.  Please include the path the article took to your site.

First article as received at one site:

	Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP
	Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site gatech.UUCP
	Path: rabbit!alice!allegra!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!mcnc!akgua!gatech!spaf
	From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
	Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news.group
	Subject: Re: ***** net.insurance ???  *****
	Message-ID: <10297@gatech.UUCP>
	Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 11:04:32 EDT
	Article-I.D.: gatech.10297
	Posted: Thu Sep 20 11:04:32 1984
	Date-Received: Mon, 24-Sep-84 22:03:56 EDT
	References: <600002@okstate.UUCP> <289@cca.UUCP>
	Followup-To: net.news.group
	Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech
	Lines: 23

	Discussion about the creation of a new newsgroup should be
	conducted in the "net.news.group" newsgroup.  If you are
	going to conti


Second article as received:

	Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site denelcor.UUCP
	Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site gatech.UUCP
	Path: denelcor!hao!hplabs!intelca!qantel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!mcnc!akgua!gatech!spaf
	From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
	Newsgroups: net.news,net.singles
	Subject: Re: crap in net.sources
	Message-ID: <10300@gatech.UUCP>
	Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 08:28:08 MDT
	Article-I.D.: gatech.10300
	Posted: Fri Sep 21 08:28:08 1984
	Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 05:08:29 MDT
	References: <334@amd.UUCP>
	Followup-To: net.news
	Distribution: net
	Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech
	Lines: 70

	> Can anything be done about all the "please mail me the source
	> for mazewars" articles in net.sources? I can unsubscribe to
	> net.general but net.sources can be very valuable. And I archive
	> it forever so the junk is especially irritating.
	>
	> I'm tempted to forge cancellation msgs for these articles,
	> wonder if there'

Note that the "Lines" count does not reflect the correct size of the
article as received (displayed), but reflects the posting size.
-- 
Off the Wall of Gene Spafford
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