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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News's getting garbled news response from B News
Summary: I'm convinced C News is Canada's revenge for Acid Rain
Message-ID: <1246@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 29 Jan 91 04:42:20 GMT
References: <9101241837.AA01633@decpa.pa.dec.com>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <9101241837.AA01633@decpa.pa.dec.com>
	paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes:
>My machine is using C News and I am getting rmail reply message from 
>B News site telling me that "Incomming news is garbled" .    B News
>site is really wishing my system to go back to B News and I would like
>to know how to find the problem with other site using B News.  Are there
>known compatible problem between C News and B News?

I help administrate a local B News site that had the same problem
after its feed switched to C news.  It turned out that they
weren't generating compressed batches correctly.  News is now
flowing in the C News -> B News direction (but I'm convinced
that some articles are getting dropped, and C News' "terse"
log files are pretty much useless for explaining what's really
happening).  Articles posted from the B News site don't get
propagated out of the C News site and the C News administrator
has never been able to get it to work properly despite weeks of
trying.

I really wish they'd switch back to B News.  C News may be faster
on their machine, but B News WORKED CORRECTLY and seems to be
much more tolerant of less-than-wizardly administrators.

					-=EPS=-