Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Subject: Re: parallel sys file entries in C News Message-ID: <*P=%&!+@rpi.edu> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science, Troy NY References: <1990Aug28.123323.2598@robobar.co.uk> <1990Aug28.172106.20512@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: 29 Aug 90 06:59:25 GMT Lines: 42 In article tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu (me) asked about B News sites and special-casing local distributions. Well, just now, while trying to track down another problem I having between B News sites that are rejecting articles which C News sites are taking fine, causing nntplink to deluge the site with articles it can't take -- and which it reports to the B News admins as garbled news -- I came upon this: (breathe) 200 masscomp NNTP server version 1.5.6 (27 August 89) ready at Wed Aug 29 02:29:32 1990 (posting ok). IHAVE 335 Ok Path: rpi!tale From: tale@rpi.edu Newsgroups: control Subject: version Message-ID: Date: 29 Aug 90 06:35:22 GMT Lines: 1 Control: version Distribution: local checking your version of news . 436 inews: Bogus local distribution rejected\ QUIT 205 masscomp closing connection. Goodbye. (I was trying to just ask for this fellow's news version at this late hour without asking the whole net for it and crossing my fingers that he wouldn't propagate the article.) The garbled news problem? Beats me. One that masscomp is whining about now doesn't have a Date: header, which seems to be why it is saying inbound news is garbled. God only knows what the problems with the others are. B News sites are also choking on "Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (\nNot Available)", where the \n is a newline in that field, though I talked to an admin there last week and as far as I know she has fixed that problem by now. -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet")) The most remarkable thing about looking at a picture of myself was the sudden realisation that my hair is in fact parted on the left and not the right.