Xref: utzoo news.software.b:3056 news.software.nntp:295 Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Important! 14Sep89 C News and NNTP! Message-ID: <1989Sep19.225626.13940@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: Date: Tue, 19 Sep 89 22:56:26 GMT In article flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes: >Due to the change in the way Message-IDs are handled in the 14 Sep 89 >version of C News, NNTP now accepts an ungodly number of duplicates. >The fix is to have nntpd lowercase Message-IDs following C News's >(RFC-822 compliant) rules. Patch to nntp1.5.6/server/misc.c follows... **SIGH** This does not seem to be our month for patches. Suitable mods for nntp were supposed to be included in our patch, but somehow they got lost. (We are actually out of the NNTP patch business as far as possible, since it's not our code, but this seemed worth making an exception.) Our thanks to Felix for supplying a fix. -- "Where is D.D. Harriman now, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology when we really *need* him?" | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu