tinkelman@ccavax.camb.com (02/09/90)
There seems to be a problem with news when posting a message with a HUGE
number of continuation lines on the To-field. I have automated several
mailing-list to local-newsgroup feeds here. I started having problems
with one of them, postings for IEEE seminars that I was getting from Lee
Rothstein at DEC.
I communicated with Lee and it turns out that he is having some problems
at his end, one of the symptoms of which was that the mail To:-field
shows ALL of the recipients, not just the distribution list names as
before (and as he would like). The symptom here is that the item shows
up in a DIR for the newsgroup, but an attempt to view it with
keypad-period, results in a blank screen, and after a few seconds,
without any further keyboard input, display of the `next new' message.
I've attached a sample problem message. My posting command file
basically just does an ADD FILE/NEWSGROUP=groupname. We are running
NEWS 5.9C. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Subject: IEEE Seminar, 7Feb90: X Window Systems.
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PLEASE POST AND REDISTRIBUTE
IEEE Computer Society,
New Hampshire Section
IEEE Computer Society, New Hampshire Section
Seminar Series
Seminar: How Many Standards Bodies Does It Take to Define the
X Window System?
By: Bob Scheifler, MIT X Consortium
On: February 7, 1990, at 7:30 PM
At: Building ZKO1, Babbage Auditorium
Digital Equipment Corporation
110 Spit Brook Road
Nashua, NH 03062
Attendance: Talks are free and open to the public. IEEE
Membership is *not* required. RSVP is also *NOT* re-
quired but is encouraged.
Sponsor: NH Section, IEEE Computer Society.
If further information is required, contact:
Lee Rothstein, Mail Stop TTB1-2/G05
Digital Equipment Corporation
Ten Tara Boulevard
Nashua, NH 03062
603-884-0039
Digital Email: NUTMEG::ROTHSTEIN
or Lee Rothstein @TTB
FAX: 603-884-2253
UUCPnet: {purdue,ucbvax,hplabs,labrea,sun,pyramid,
gryphon,angelo}!nutmeg.dec.com!rothstein
ARPAnet/Domain Addressing: rothstein@nutmeg.enet.dec.com
BITNET: rothstein@nutmeg.dec%decwrl.dec.com
Email address clues, complaints, suggestions and alternatives
gratefully accepted!
How Many Standards Bodies Does It Take to Define the X Window
System?
=============================================================
The MIT X Consortium was formed in January 1988 to oversee
evolution of the X Window System. How well is it working? What
exactly is being done? What is planned for the future?
What's the relationship between the X Consortium and all those
acronyms, like ANSC X3H3.6, IEEE P1201, NIST FIPS, X/Open, and
ISO? Are there too many cooks in the X kitchen? Answers will
be attempted.
Bob Scheifler
============
Bob Scheifler is the principal architect of the X Window
System protocol. He is currently the Director of the MIT X
Consortium, and is a Research Associate at the MIT Laboratory
for Computer Science.
DIRECTIONS TO:
Digital Equipment Corporation/ZKO1 Lobby & Babbage Auditorium
From points south in Boston/Cambridge:
* Drive North on Rt 3 to the New Hampshire border. (MA Rt 3
[is it US 3?] becomes NH Rt 3/Everett Turnpike.)
* Just 'round the first corner from the NH border is NH Exit 1;
look carefully for it, it's easy to miss.
* Take that right-hand exit down the hill to some stop lights.
* Turn left at the lights onto Spit Brook Road.
* Go under Rt 3, pass one or two (?) more sets of lights.
* The Sheraton Tara is on your right as you drive along Spit
Brook Road.
* Just past the Sheraton, there is a large driveway entrance
on your right at a traffic light.
* Turn right into it and follow it down hill.
* At the bottom of the hill you can turn right (at a traffic
light) to go to the Sheraton or left for Digital.
* Bear left, go up the hill and you will see Digital signs
pointing to parking lots.
* Pass the turn-off road on the left to ZKO3.
* Follow the signs to the "Lobby" (this is the Main Lobby--the
Lobby of Building ZK1) and Parking Lots A, B, or C. Park in
an open spot as near to the Lobby as possible.
* Talks are held in the Babbage Auditorium. As you enter the
ZK1 Lobby, you turn right down the hall. The auditorium
is the first right as you go down the hall.
* Should you miss NH Exit 1 on Rt 3, the next exit you reach is
Exit 4. (Exit 2 hasn't been built yet, and Exit 3 is an
on-ramp only going North.)
* At Exit 4 you can either turn back on Rt 3, or take a left
(this is East Dunstable Road), keep going (about a mile) on
this road to a "T" junction, and take a left, this is Spit
Brook Road, and you will come back to Digital and the Tara,
as described in the base note. (Incidentally, Exit 4 is the
location of the Nashua Holiday Inn.)gih900@CSC1.ANU.OZ.AU (Geoff Huston) (02/13/90)
>There seems to be a problem with news when posting a message with a HUGE >number of continuation lines on the To-field. I have automated several >mailing-list to local-newsgroup feeds here. I started having problems >with one of them, postings for IEEE seminars that I was getting from Lee >Rothstein at DEC. In NEWSADD.C _ALL_ message header lines are stored in an internal array of fixed size. The message given here: >To: Moss@cs.umass.EDU, RLevine%East@Sun.COM, Walt@OSF.ORG, > { 170 (!!) lines deleted} > kehrlich@East.Sun.COM, Geoff@East@Sun.COM, Hartman@OSF.ORG, > WMM%HPCND@SDE.HP.COM, mishkin@apollo.com, gutman@apollo.com > > PLEASE POST AND REDISTRIBUTE ------------ !!!!!! simply exceeds the parser's available space. I could a) make the memory allocation dynamic (which would slow things down a bit, but may do the trick or b) put the headers in a temp file (which would slow things down a lot) Geoff