Xref: utzoo news.software.nntp:1375 news.admin:15140 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!ox.com!msen.com!emv From: emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,news.admin Subject: Re: there are LOTS of messages with two @'s in them Message-ID: Date: 12 Jun 91 00:54:15 GMT References: <1991Jun9.232828.17956@europa.asd.contel.com> <5930@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1991Jun10.164931.21555@europa.asd.contel.com> <1991Jun11.232317.3580@europa.asd.contel.com> Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: MSEN, Inc. Ann Arbor MI Lines: 38 In-Reply-To: enger@europa.asd.contel.com's message of Tue, 11 Jun 91 23:23:17 GMT In article <1991Jun11.232317.3580@europa.asd.contel.com> enger@europa.asd.contel.com (Robert M. Enger) writes: On a lark I grepped through my history file looking for more than one '@' in a message ID. I found over 180 such messages. (I keep a 40-day history file). While they're not legal, they apparently aren't truly rare. Perhaps steps should be taken to harden the nntpd software against these unsightly little beasties. In the interest of public humliation and flogging :-) here's a count of all of the doubled at-signs in the history file here, sorted by frequency of appearance. Two of the goofups look like they're due to misconfigured GNUS posting schemes, and some are probably the result of busted gateways. If netnews software wants to get tough on message ids like it got tough on dates, fixing the worst six offenders will get rid of 85% of the problem. --Ed 33 @usenet@kadsma (kadsma.kodak.com) 20 @news%jho@iex.com 19 @cluster@ukc.ac.uk 12 @scrumpy@.bnr.ca 11 @cognos.uucp@uunet.uu.net (GARYM) 10 @%boot.decnet@edwards-tems.af.mil 3 @%griffon@mcc.oz 2 @dayvax.uucp@dayton.saic.com 2 @mandata@uunet.uu.net 2 @zeil@escape.vsse.in-berlin.de 1 @%rtsmv1.decnet@edwards-vax.af.mil 1 @349@3u.au 1 @6@6.edu 1 @88@8an.an.arg 1 @NEFX4.91Jun7101146@nefx4.ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (HOLMES) 1 @NEFX4.91Jun7101949@nefx4.ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (HOLMES) 1 @e8@e8ha.eas.asu.edu 1 @keyword@cpsc.ucalgary.ca 1 @train@bcm.tmc.edu 1 @unssun.nevada.novell@suvm.bitnet