Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: What to do with bad Cnews batches ?
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.214106.24477@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Sep18.043244.2661@decuac.dec.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 90 21:41:06 GMT

In article <1990Sep18.043244.2661@decuac.dec.com> mjr@decuac.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
>	What's the best way to deal with the odd bad batch ? Do I run it
>through [what *DO* I run it through?] and hope for the best ? Do I pitch
>it ?

In general, the answer is "pitch it".  Mostly a batch goes in "bad"
because of an improper control message; this probably shouldn't cause
that, actually, and some consideration will be given to fixing that.
The other major reason is that the batch is badly corrupted and relaynews
can't make head nor tail of it.  It may be possible to repair the batch
by hand, but more likely it's just plain trash.  Batches go into "bad"
more for diagnosis than for cure.  If you're not hot on finding out
exactly what went bad -- usually it's nothing interesting -- just wait
for the housekeeping stuff to throw them out, or get rid of them yourself.
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