[net.news] More on unknown netnews problem

gauldin@ihuxf.UUCP (06/06/83)

I recently reported that I was getting garbled articles out of
readnews. I keep encountering the problem, and I have a little more
information about what the symptoms are. For some reason, only the
characters that appear in position 1 of each line of the article
will be printed. For example, I just saw an "article" that looked
something like this:
  tscSsr

R

!

When I quit and then reentered readnews and reread the article
(which I won't copy here), I found that it started with a blank
line, followed by an indented line, followed by lines starting with
t,s,c,S,s, and r, followed by another blank line, a line starting
with R, a blank, and a line starting with !. Does anyone know
what's going on?

			Mark Gauldin
			ihuxf!gauldin