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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: someone is garbaging news (more information)
Message-ID: <2828@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 9-Jun-85 20:33:14 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  9 20:33:14 1985
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From seismo!utah-cs!donn Sun Jun  9 00:14:37 1985

ARPAnet articles reposted by topaz (a Pyramid at Rutgers U) tend to
contain garbage in the Sender header field...  I've noticed this before
but it hasn't seemed to cause any problems in the past.  Here's what
the header of the damaged article looked like at Utah (I passed it
through 'cat -v' so that similar problems don't arise with mail!):

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Relay-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utah-gr.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA
Path: utah-gr!pwa-b!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!columbia!topaz!donn@utah-cs
From: donn@utah-cs
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: re: re: attacks on "Lord of Light"
Message-ID: <2202@topaz.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 85 04:17:39 MDT
Date-Received: Thu, 6 Jun 85 05:27:47 MDT
Sender: M-@^L0M-p$M-^?M-lPM-@A@topaz.ARPA
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
Lines: 77


Maybe the sender name is correct, but it is given in YSCII (the Yuggoth
Standard Code for Information Interchange),

Donn

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What seems to be happening is that the ARPA->usenet link at Topaz has a
minor problem, and is putting garbage (probably an uninitialized field) in
for the Sender. Some piece of software down the line seems to be aborting
because of this, causing the garbage. If topaz could track down that
garbage, that would be great, but I don't understand why some sites would 
throw up on that thing  -- I checked my source and don't see any reason
offhand why that would happen. Perhaps it is somewhere in the transfer
mechanism, either in the sendbatch/unbatch of csendbatch/cunbatch setup
somewhere. 

sigh.

chuq
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