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From: liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Liz Allen-Mitchell)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: strange bounce from posting to moderated group
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.184503.24708@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: 7 Aug 90 18:45:03 GMT
References: <1990Aug7.050533.18892@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> <1990Aug7.072556.20840@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Distribution: news
Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
Lines: 35

Sorry about all these postings -- this has been quite a mystery to
me...

More information on the crossposted article that flooded the moderator
of comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest...

I got the original copy of the article off a backup tape; the headers
are:

	Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest
	Path: grian!alex
	From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle)
	Subject: Mac mail systems & file transport
	Message-ID: <1990Jul25.034342.2996@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
	Organization: Workman & Associates
	Date: Wed, 25 Jul 90 03:43:42 GMT
	Lines: 42

I suspect the problem is that little space in the Newsgroups header
between the newsgroups names.  Some clever system somewhere stripped
the space out and caused the article to bounce all over creation...
Does that sound right to those of you who know the software better
than me?

I wonder what the fix for this is!  I could change my inews, but then
I would cause such articles generated on other systems to bounce the
same way.  Perhaps inews should only mail unapproved aritcles that
were not created locally?

Perhaps nn could be modified to strip out the space before posting the
article, too.
-- 
		- Liz Allen-Mitchell	liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us
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"God is light; in him there is no darkness at all." -- 1 John 1:5b