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From: weening@Polya.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
Subject: GNUS/ClariNet bug and a fix
Message-ID: <WEENING.89Sep21021005@Polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 21 Sep 89 09:10:05 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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When some Message-ID lines contain a ":", GNUS skips over those
messages (except for the first new message in a newsgroup) and also
shows incorrect subject lines for the messages that don't have ":" in
the Message-ID.  This happens with ClariNet messages.  It is because
of a small problem in the function nntp-retrieve-headers, and the
following patch should fix it:

diff -c2 nntp.el.old nntp.el 
*** nntp.el.old	Fri Jul 28 07:09:37 1989
--- nntp.el	Thu Sep 21 01:59:54 1989
***************
*** 273,277 ****
  		       (forward-line 1)))
  		 ;; Skip invalid field (ex. Subject:abc)
! 		 (if (looking-at "^[^:]*:[^ \t]")
  		     (forward-line 1))
  		 )
--- 273,277 ----
  		       (forward-line 1)))
  		 ;; Skip invalid field (ex. Subject:abc)
! 		 (if (looking-at "^[^23][^:]*:[^ \t]")
  		     (forward-line 1))
  		 )