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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Help me with nntp error
Message-ID: <1297@kosman.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 91 04:05:17 GMT
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Organization: K.O.'s Manor - Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA 93035
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I'm trying to set up an nntp newsfeed.  I'm setting up three pieces of
software: rn, cnews and nntp.  I think the first two are going okay.
Nntp can even receive news, and rn can mail replies.  Cnews can post
and receive news, and it can build outgoing queues.

Nntp just can't get the news back to the newsfeed.  When I try, nntpsend
gives me a report like this:

 nntpsend: [8820] begin Thu Feb 28 19:40:47 PST 1991
 nntpsend: [8820] begin gate.oxy.edu
 nntpxmit: /usr/NNTP/NEWSARTS/to/tiger/7: message-id syntax error: 273
 nntpxmit: gate.oxy.edu stats 0 offered 0 accepted 0 rejected 0 failed
 nntpxmit: gate.oxy.edu xmit user 0.067 system 0.100 elapsed 2.617
	 3.9 real         0.0 user         0.1 sys  
 nntpsend: [8820] end gate.oxy.edu
 nntpsend: [8820] end Thu Feb 28 19:40:53 PST 1991

It's the third line I'm worried about.  There's nothing particular about
the news article: it's regular cnews stuff, just like many things that
oxy.edu sees every day.  I'm not even sure what 'message-id' it's
referring to.

Anyway, the software is new, just snarfed from uunet in the last week,
it's running on an Interactive Systems box running BSD 4.3.  The feed is
also BSD running B news and has been an nntp server for a while, so it's
probably not anything at their end.

Does anyone have any idea what I should be looking for?
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