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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: C News vs nntpxmit in nntp 1.5.11
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.022808.24695@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 91 02:28:08 GMT
References: <27E4746A.43C3@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <27E4746A.43C3@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu> hull@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu (David Hull) writes:
>I recently installed the latest patches to nntp and found that the latest
>version of nntpxmit expects the queue file to contain both the filename
>and the message-id of the article to be sent.  This corresponds to the
>'n' flag in C News's sys file, not 'F' as documented.  If the incorrect
>file format is used, no error is emitted and the queue file is silently
>thrown away.

  This is very strange news indeed.  I am running nntpxmit from 1.5.11, and
am using the 'F' flag.  According to my syslog entries, our news is going out.
And the email I get disagreeing with the views in my postings seems to
confirm this.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940