Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 7/7/83; site rlgvax.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!rlgvax!guy
From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Missing message bodies
Message-ID: <1367@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Nov-83 14:15:01 EST
Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1367
Posted: Mon Nov  7 14:15:01 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Nov-83 12:12:08 EST
References: <856@drux3.UUCP> <1028@watcgl.UUCP> <339@pyuxn.UUCP>
Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA
Lines: 15

The "anti-truncated article problem" (what *is* the word for chopping off
the beginning of something?  I checked in a dictionary and "frustrated" doesn't
seem to be it) has been identified, and two fixes had been posted a while
ago.

It seems any article whose body begins with a tab (or possibly with white space
in general) loses the first block (512/1024 bytes) of the article due to a
bug in some versions of "news".  A fix to this has been posted, but I guess
not all sites have been Good Citizens and dropped it in.  A second fix was
posted; this fixes it on the other end by fiddling with articles being
sent out with white space at the beginning.  A third fix is not to submit
articles which begin with a tab...

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy