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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: C News vs nntpxmit in nntp 1.5.11
Message-ID: <1310@kosman.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 91 18:35:50 GMT
References: <27E4746A.43C3@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu> <n28Gf=k31@cs.psu.edu>
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flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
 }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,

That's not what happened to me: I got a complaint about the syntax
of the message-id, and an aborted transfer.  I had to change the sys
file.

 }nntpxmit could be made more robust.  It's a mess.

Hear, hear!!!
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