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From: andrew@idacom.uucp (Andrew Scott)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Uncompressed news discarded in C News
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.205549.14138@idacom.uucp>
Date: 26 Sep 90 20:55:49 GMT
Organization: IDACOM, a division of Hewlett-Packard
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One of our newsfeeds sends us uncompressed news.  It only amounts to perhaps
a dozen articles a day, so don't be alarmed...  Our problem is that these
batches are tossed by C news into the in.coming/bad directory for no apparent
reason.  If I compress them by hand and put them back into the in.coming
directory, they are processed with no problems.

Mail sent to news looks like:

thishost relaynews `bad/654364346' failed, status 1005 (see errlog)

Sometimes the status returned by relaynews is 1.

The strange thing about this is that there is nothing in errlog to indicate
what went wrong.  I can't see how relaynews could return a status of 1005
either.

We are running C news of 25-May-1990 on a Vax running 4.2BSD.  Has anybody
else seen behavior like this?
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