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From: osm@heifetz.ann-arbor.mi.us (Owen Scott Medd)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C news meets a mailing list
Message-ID: <1989Aug8.030953.13302@heifetz.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 8 Aug 89 03:09:53 GMT
References: <1989Aug7.060124.8135@indetech.uucp>
Reply-To: osm@heifetz.ann-arbor.mi.us (Owen Scott Medd)
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In article <1989Aug7.060124.8135@indetech.uucp> david@indetech.UUCP (David Kuder) writes:
>I've finally gotten C news up and running to the point where I can post.
>
 [...]
>Speaking not being able to see straight.  Any ideas were nearly empty
>batches might be generated?  We send out the occasional cunbatch script
>wrapped around the magic that says 12 bit compressed and zero actual
>data.

I *think* we see this problem when a togo.[0-9] contains nothing but
expired/cancelled articles.  The batcher -> muncher -> sender pipeline
in sendbatches doesn't allow for the fact that a togo file might not
contain anything of value.  In Bnews, you were just chunking through
one big batch queue, so the fact that some articles were missing wasn't
that big a problem.

Since we have some downstream feeds that send sendme's that date from
weeks ago and some other feeds that don't pick up their news for up to
a week or so at a time, I tend to get those annoying "Inbound news
garbled" messages.  I've got a little shell script that checks the batches
to make sure at least one article exists, but this is definitely a hack.

Owen
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