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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Articles rejected by C news at ukma
Message-ID: <22527@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 06:41:55 GMT
References: <1991Jun16.144010.15240@ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
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Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jun16.144010.15240@ms.uky.edu> kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes:
> 
> Please note the large number of entries from goofy.Apple.COM,
> cbmvax.commodore.com, nntp-server.caltech.edu, and ucrmath.ucr.edu;
> all of these show up regularly in these dropped-article logs.  I've
> sent mail to these sites with no result.

This is really f**king useful.  Without access to the contents of the
articles as you received them, there is nothing I can do to help you.
Looking at the commodore.com articles cited as they sit in the news spool
here, there is nothing obviously wrong with the header lines, not even
any of those DIY header lines that people like to add.

I get mail addressed to usenet, postmaster and root, the only message
I've received from you was something about k12 via rutgers.

Please, keep in mind that chances are that some intermediate site or
bogus gateways is mashing the articles or that *your* news software
is being fascist about some more or less reasonable header.  It may
be something that the orginator has no control over or is relatively
local to the recipient.

Either post/forward samples of the defective artices, or modify your
software to show what it is that it's complaining about.

> 	Dropped Articles, week ending Sun Jun 16 07:44:37 EDT 1991
> 
> Header contains non-header line:
...
> 	  <22280@cbmvax.commodore.com>
> 	  <22325@cbmvax.commodore.com>
> 	  <22326@cbmvax.commodore.com>
> 	  <22421@cbmvax.commodore.com>
> 	  <22423@cbmvax.commodore.com>
> 	  <22465@cbmvax.commodore.com>
...

B-news has more than a few cryptic messages too, but I've improved my
version enough to find out just what it's actually bitching about.

-- 
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