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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: errors from news
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.180612.29267@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1991 18:06:12 GMT
References: <1991Mar10.140425.3978@unixland.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar10.140425.3978@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes:
>What does the following mean from CNEWS?
>
>relaynews: unbatcher out of synch, tossing: So 5 p lowedu!hft
>relaynews: unbatcher out of synch, tossing: From:w1s w.u, AlSo y2to : <qmaultinS OUthirI $35
>...

Typically this means a batch got garbled in transmission.  The bits and
pieces looking plausible but not sensible usually means bits got trashed
in a compressed file, so uncompress is having fun.

>Did I get some garbled news maybe?  I have been having some trouble getting
>a new disk installed, maybe there's some corruption ... or is this a typical
>news problem (I haven't seen it before)...

It's rare almost to nonexistence on a properly-configured system running on
stable hardware.  I'd suspect that new disk.

>And how about these:
>
>relaynews: can't link to `talk/politics/misc/7541'

Might be disk problems again.  Definitely sounds ominous.
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