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From: tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Subject: Re: parallel sys file entries in C News
Message-ID: <*P=%&!+@rpi.edu>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science, Troy NY
References: <1990Aug28.123323.2598@robobar.co.uk>
	<1990Aug28.172106.20512@zoo.toronto.edu> <YM=%=1_@rpi.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 90 06:59:25 GMT
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In article <YM=%=1_@rpi.edu> tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu (me) asked about B
News sites and special-casing local distributions.  Well, just now,
while trying to track down another problem I having between B News
sites that are rejecting articles which C News sites are taking fine,
causing nntplink to deluge the site with articles it can't take -- and
which it reports to the B News admins as garbled news -- I came upon
this:  (breathe)

200 masscomp NNTP server version 1.5.6 (27 August 89) ready at Wed Aug 29 02:29:32 1990 (posting ok).
IHAVE <versionm@rpi.edu>
335 Ok
Path: rpi!tale
From: tale@rpi.edu
Newsgroups: control
Subject: version
Message-ID: <versionm@rpi.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 90 06:35:22 GMT
Lines: 1
Control: version
Distribution: local

checking your version of news
.
436 inews: Bogus local distribution rejected\
QUIT
205 masscomp closing connection.  Goodbye.

(I was trying to just ask for this fellow's news version at this late
hour without asking the whole net for it and crossing my fingers that
he wouldn't propagate the article.)

The garbled news problem?  Beats me.  One that masscomp is whining
about now doesn't have a Date: header, which seems to be why it is
saying inbound news is garbled.  God only knows what the problems with
the others are.  B News sites are also choking on "Sender:
news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (\nNot Available)", where the \n is a newline
in that field, though I talked to an admin there last week and as far
as I know she has fixed that problem by now.
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