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From: enger@seka.scc.com (Robert M. Enger)
Subject: Re: NNTPXMIT Problem reading the file of articles to send
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.020531.6658@europa.asd.contel.com>
Keywords: fix
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 91 02:05:31 GMT
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Ron Nash wrote:
|> I tried switching the sites I feed via NNTP from the F flag to the n flag
|> and all the articles started falling on the floor!  The files were being
|> created OK in news/out.going with the message-id as the second field.
|> But for some reason nntpxmit was reporting ihave_stats 0 offered 0 accepted 
|> 0 rejected 0 failed.  A check with a site I feed confirmed it.
|> 
|> Any ideals?  I switched back to the F flag for now.  I am running Cnews
|> with NNTP 1.5.10.  The only non-standard patch is in nntpd for Paul Vixie's
|> msgid daemon.  I don't see how that would affect nntpxmit.
|> 

The CHANGES file I have indicates that support for message-id's in the
batch files was included in version 1.5.11.  Time to upgrade!

1.5.11
	<stuff deleted>
	Fixes to nntpxmit to support CNEWS batch file formats which
	contain the name of the article file and its message id.
	[flee@guardian.cs.psu.edu]
	<lots more stuff>

As I understand it, use of the 'n' flag is supposed to make things a lot
more efficient because the xmitting host doesn't have to open each file
to get the message-id before it offers the article to the distant end.
Thus, only those articles which will really be transferred to the distant
end will wind up being opened and read from disk.  

Hope this helps,
Bob

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Robert M. Enger
CONTEL Federal Systems
enger@seka.scc.com  (Internet)