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From: sdo@u1100a.UUCP (Scott Orshan)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Bad articles coming in - they contain batches
Message-ID: <719@u1100a.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 09:45:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: u1100a.719
Posted: Wed Aug 15 09:45:03 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 02:27:47 EDT
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway, NJ
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I've seen a few articles in the past few days that contain large
news batches at the end.  Examples are: 1249@sdcrdcf and 964@ihuxw.

Somewhere along the line, someone's batcher must have put the
wrong size on the "#! rnews <size>" line such that the next
unbatcher read through multiple articles until the size was
satisfied.  The articles that were trapped in the batches
(which were restricted to one news feed) have come in normally
through my other feed.

Has anyone else seen this problem lately?  Please check the above
articles and see if your site got bad copies.  I'd like to
know how far downstream I should look.

Sample format of bad article:

<Normal Article>
#! rnews <size1>
<Article of size 1>
#! rnews <size2>
<Article of size 2>
   .
   .
   .
#! rnews <size N>
<Part of an article of size N>

Obviously, the unbatcher stopped when it reached the original, wrong
size.
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			Scott Orshan
			Bell Communications Research
			201-981-3064
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