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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Proliferation of "Re^n:" in subject lines
Message-ID: <3375@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: 10 Jul 89 22:20:14 GMT
References: <272@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> <89Jul2.110144edt.10370@neat.ai.toronto.edu> <WISNER.89Jul2113412@anableps.berkeley.edu> <3583@looking.on.ca> <WISNER.89Jul3111949@anableps.berkeley.edu> <1989Jul10.130530.10909@telotech.uucp>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
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In article <1989Jul10.130530.10909@telotech.uucp> bsa@telotech.uucp (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>And, presumably, when rn stops giving me "% interp buffer overflow!" and
>dropping core when the references: line exceeds a certain size?

Enter :-) mode:

      This is not a bug, but a feature.  It stops flame wars cold after
      a certain number of followups have progressed!

End :-) mode.

Seriously, a simple modification to respond.c makes this much less
of a problem (I did this a few months back):

Index: respond.c
Prereq: 4.3.1.5
*** OLDrespond.c	Wed Sep 18 01:11:37 1985
--- respond.c	Tue May  2 13:50:39 1989
***************
*** 1,6 ****
! /* $Header: respond.c,v 4.3.1.5 85/09/10 11:05:00 lwall Exp $
   *
   * $Log:	respond.c,v $
   * Revision 4.3.1.5  85/09/10  11:05:00  lwall
   * Improved %m in in_char().
   * 
--- 1,10 ----
! /* $Header: respond.c,v 4.3.1.5+JTB 89/04/02 13:44:00 jbuck Exp $
   *
   * $Log:	respond.c,v $
+  *
+  * Revision 4.3.1.5+JTB 89/05/02 13:44:00 jbuck
+  * Made a separate, quadruple-size buffer for header in followup.
+  *
   * Revision 4.3.1.5  85/09/10  11:05:00  lwall
   * Improved %m in in_char().
   * 
***************
*** 354,359 ****
--- 358,364 ----
  followup()
  {
      bool incl_body = (*buf == 'F');
+     char hbuf[4*LBUFLEN];	/* four times the old size */
  
      artopen(art);
      tmpfp = fopen(headname,"w");
***************
*** 361,368 ****
  	printf(cantcreate,headname) FLUSH;
  	return;
      }
!     interp(buf, (sizeof buf), getval("NEWSHEADER",NEWSHEADER));
!     fprintf(tmpfp,"%s",buf);
      if (incl_body && artfp != Nullfp) {
  #ifdef VERBOSE
  	if (verbose)
--- 366,373 ----
  	printf(cantcreate,headname) FLUSH;
  	return;
      }
!     interp(hbuf, (sizeof hbuf), getval("NEWSHEADER",NEWSHEADER));
!     fprintf(tmpfp,"%s",hbuf);
      if (incl_body && artfp != Nullfp) {
  #ifdef VERBOSE
  	if (verbose)
-- 
-- Joe Buck	jbuck@epimass.epi.com, uunet!epimass.epi.com!jbuck