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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Subject: Re: Cnews - what is going on here?
Message-ID: <1991Apr14.001744.24263@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
References: <1991Apr13.134056.30936@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1991 00:17:44 GMT
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In article <1991Apr13.134056.30936@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
> I have recently been receiving messages such as this:
>
>leading five sites sending news with bad headers:
>   2 mp.cs.niu.edu
>
> The funny thing is that the site listed is my own.  What exactly is
>happening here?

 Since I posted this, a possible explanation has occurred to me.  I did receive
some log messages the same day indicating unexpected nntp disconnects.  It is
possible that these caused bad batch files to be created.

 I wonder if this is what happens when you feed an empty file into relaynews?

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