SMITH%MCCLB0.MED.NYU.EDU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Ross Smith: (212) 340-5356) (01/08/90)
Hi everybody, here is another problem for your consideration.
On upgrade from V5.7 to V5.8/9 our NNTP feed broke and we were forced to
switch to MAIL as the mechanism for getting news from a neighbouring UNIX
site (PHRI). The news arrived, one mail message per item. The 'standard'
NEWSSKIM.COM file was used to get the news batches with:
$MAIL
EXTRACT/ALL NEWSMAIL.MAIL
and the resulting file was fed to NEWS.
I noticed that with V5.9A that while 13 mail messages were extracted, only 5
items were recognized adn ADDed. So I switched back to NEWS V5.8. With V5.8,
all items were added, except the first, consistently. I kludged my way round
that by creating a dummy 'dead' item file and appending the real news batches
to it before handing it over to NEWS. With this fiddle we got NEWS working
again.
Then I got V5.9C and tried it. On the news batch appended below V5.9C ADDed
every other item only (skipped half of them).
I think this is a bug. Clearly V5.8 and the V5.9x versions behave
differently, adn the differences essentially make V5.9x unusable with a news
feed via mail of the type we were getting.
I have appended an example below. The messy 'item' at the begining is the
fragment pre-pended to the batch to allow V5.8 to read it, however, this does
not affect the V5.9C behaviour, as far as I can tell. Note that there are 3
headers, one from VMS mail, one from PMDF and the NEWS header: all the NEWS
item stuff has 'N' in column 1.
Now where to look is probably clear: I appologize for not trying to fix this
myself, but we are a FORTRAN shop here and there is only one overworked girl
who knows C. Waiting for her to get round to doing this isn't too realistic.
We are running: VMS V5.2, PMDF V3.1, CMU-TCP V6.4 (patched Dec 89).
-------------------- Example of News Batch ----------------------------------
<FF> <--- NB: FormFeed character replaced with <FF> for mailing.
From: IN%"news@phri.phri.nyu.edu" "News System" 26-DEC-1989 12:37:40.73
Received: from phri.phri.nyu.edu by MCCLB0.MED.NYU.EDU; Tue, 26 Dec 89 12:37 EST
NPath: phri!ccnysci!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!
DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL!TMPLee
NFrom: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
N !! --- THIS IS A DUMMY NEWS ITEM ---
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From: IN%"news@phri.phri.nyu.edu" "News System" 4-JAN-1990 18:41:10.49
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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 90 18:46:06 EST
From: News System <news@phri.phri.nyu.edu>
Message-id: <9001042346.AA09448@phri.phri.nyu.edu>
Apparently-To: rnews@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu
X-Envelope-to: rnews
NPath: phri!ccnysci!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!think!mintaka!bloom-be
acon!SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU!Michael.Jones
NFrom: Michael.Jones@SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU
NNewsgroups: comp.windows.x
NSubject: Crayola Color Database
NMessage-ID: <631490908.mbj@SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU>
NDate: 4 Jan 90 22:08:00 GMT
NSender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
NOrganization: The Internet
NLines: 7
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N -- Mike
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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 90 18:46:24 EST
From: News System <news@phri.phri.nyu.edu>
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Apparently-To: rnews@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu
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NPath: phri!ccnysci!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!mintaka!bloom-beacon!mcg
ill-vision!quiche!opus!clement
NFrom: clement@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Clement Pellerin)
NNewsgroups: comp.sys.next
NSubject: printing mach docs
NSummary: machsys won't print on the next
NMessage-ID: <1831@opus.cs.mcgill.ca>
NDate: 4 Jan 90 22:27:33 GMT
NReply-To: clement@opus.UUCP (Clement Pellerin)
NDistribution: usa
NOrganization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
NLines: 30
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N > CMU MACH documentation can be obtained by anonymous ftp. This is the
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N--
Nnews <clement
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From: IN%"news@phri.phri.nyu.edu" "News System" 4-JAN-1990 18:50:39.66
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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 90 18:55:32 EST
From: News System <news@phri.phri.nyu.edu>
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Apparently-To: rnews@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu
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NPath: phri!ccnysci!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!
DREW.BITNET!PCOEN
NFrom: PCOEN@DREW.BITNET (Paul Coen)
NNewsgroups: comp.os.vms
NSubject: Restricted, Captive, Mail & TPU
NMessage-ID: <9001042338.AA10505@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
NDate: 4 Jan 90 20:06:00 GMT
NSender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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NPaul Coen Student Operator, Drew University Academic Computer Center
N bitnet: pcoen@drew, pcoen@drunivac usenet: rutgers!njin!drew!pcoen
N "Plants are green, unless they turn brown, and brown is bad."
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NXref: phri comp.lang.misc:3809 comp.lang.c:24820
NPath: phri!ccnysci!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!
ukc!inmos!roger
NFrom: roger@wraxall.inmos.co.uk (Roger Shepherd)
NNewsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c
NSubject: occam (was Re: The Fundamental Concept of Programming language X)
NKeywords: programming languages, abstractions
NMessage-ID: <3470@ganymede.inmos.co.uk>
NDate: 4 Jan 90 10:06:32 GMT
NReferences: <1470@inmos.co.uk>
NSender: news@inmos.co.uk
NReply-To: roger@inmos.co.uk (Roger Shepherd)
NOrganization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.
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NIn article <1470@inmos.co.uk (Bill Smith) writes:
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N+44 454 616616 ROW: roger@inmos.com OR roger@inmos.co.uk
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From: IN%"news@phri.phri.nyu.edu" "News System" 4-JAN-1990 18:51:11.49
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