Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: cnews inbound batches going into in.coming/bad
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.151613.1979@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Sep24.180726.11442@nstar.uucp>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 90 15:16:13 GMT

In article <1990Sep24.180726.11442@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes:
>... After I updated the sys file - I started getting
>bad batches (bundles) in in.coming/bad.  These same
>batches most always will be processed by cnews when moved
>back into the in.coming directory - any ideas?

You left out the most important fact:  what, if anything, is showing up
in errlog to explain those batches?

There is also a pervasive illusion that re-running a batch and having it
work fine tells you something.  Wrong.  Since most batches end up in bad
because of a flaw in a single article, and all articles in the batch will
be rejected as duplicates when you re-run the batch, re-running it tells
you *nothing* in general.
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