Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!gatech!psuvax1!news From: flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: Re: C News vs nntpxmit in nntp 1.5.11 Message-ID: Date: 19 Mar 91 13:14:44 GMT References: <27E4746A.43C3@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: guardian.cs.psu.edu Hi. I'm the original author of the nntpxmit mods in nntp 1.5.11. nntpxmit would like message-IDs in the queue file, but if it doesn't find a message-ID, it will revert to opening the article to fetch the message-ID. The logic for this in nntpxmit.c is a little scattered; sendarticle() calls getmsgid() if it's passed an empty message-ID. If you accidentally have an 'f' format queue file rather than an 'n' format queue file, then nntpxmit will believe the article sizes are message-IDs, but this is mostly harmless since the receiving system will say "435 Ok" when the bogus message-ID is offered. Still, nntpxmit could be made more robust. It's a mess. -- Felix Lee flee@cs.psu.edu