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From: nntp@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Known problems with the 1.5.10 release
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Date: 13 Sep 90 02:45:07 GMT
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In article <4094@lib.tmc.edu> nntp@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes:
>2. GNEWS and the new select() based timeout mechanism in 1.5.10 are not
>compatible. The workaround is to not run 1.5.10. This will also be fixed in
>1.6. This one got by because all my beta testers don't use GNEWS. I will 
>be sure that 1.6 has a beta site that does use GNEWS.

GNEWS should be replaced by GNUS in the above text. Also, the fix is to
detailed below. It is a change to GNUS:

A workaround is to have GNUS users put the following in their .emacs files:

(setq nntp-maximum-request 1)

Apparently GNUS depended on a feature of the server that is outside the
protocol spec. Some will argue that NNTPD is broken if it doesn't conform
to the spec and others will say it is now broken because it doesn't act
like it used to.

I am still thinking about this. Please send your opinions to the nntp@tmc.edu
mailbox.