[news.software.nntp] Client machines not informed when posting fails

andrew@calvin.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick) (11/01/90)

I think I have discovered a problem with nntp.  First, I am running:

C-News (patchdate 7-Sept-90)
NNTP (1.5.10)
rn/rrn (patchlevel 47)

I have found that when client machines (running rrn) attempt to post to
a nonexistent newsgroup (e.g., xyzzy) the users are not informed of the
error, and the dead.article file ends up in /dead.article.  This does
not happen on the server machine, only the clients.

Has anyone else seen this?  Am I doing something wrong, or is this a
real bug?

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