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From: mp@whuxle.UUCP (Mark Plotnick)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: The Bug lives
Message-ID: <375@whuxle.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-May-84 11:56:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 21 11:56:01 1984
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References: <8700002@acf4.UUCP> <7807@watmath.UUCP>
Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany
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Lee Dickey asks which "bug killer" lines actually invoke bugs.  Here are
some bugs I know of:

	- if the first line of your article contains a colon followed by
	  a blank, 2.10 news may interpret it as a header line,
	  thus the line may disappear from the message body.
	  Presumably, everybody who has 2.10 has either fixed the bug or
	  converted to 2.10.1.
	- if the first line of the article begins with whitespace, it and
	  several lines following it may disappear.  A fix
	  to header.c has been out for awhile.  >>>Those folks who write bug killer
	  lines that begin with whitespace are sure to elicit the bug!<<<
And some more problems related to headers:
	- if the References header line (or any other line in the header)
	  gets too long, it may spill over into the body of the message.
	- if your site name in the Message-ID field ends with anything other
	  than ".UUCP", and if the message passes through the
	  wjh12->n44a->rna->cmcl2 machines,
	  it will reappear with a Message-ID that DOES end in .UUCP,
	  thus producing a duplicate message that the news software will
	  not detect.

So, to be safe, you DON'T have to begin an article with an extraneous line.
Just make sure the first line begins at the left margin and doesn't
contain a colon followed by a blank.
	Mark Plotnick
	whuxle!mp