tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) (02/09/89)
This problem recently came to my attention:
A user posted a followup to a local newsgroup. The References: header was
*very* long (205 characters, not including the References: part). When you
tried to followup on the article, you got this error:
%interp buffer flow
and rn would exit, complaining about an internal error.
This article was posted via a NNTP server using the fake inews supplied with
the NNTP distribution. Apparently, the real inews doesn't force a maximum
upper length on headers like this.
Has this been a problem to any other sites before? Does anybody have a
magic set of patches (to either the real or fake inews) that will trim
headers to some maximum length?
Tim
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