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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: News bug -- a major black hole (relax)
Message-ID: <3075@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 23:15:04 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  3 23:15:04 1985
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Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
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In article <10855@rochester.UUCP> bukys@rochester.UUCP (Liudvikas Bukys) writes:
>The unbatcher just counts characters when it unbatches.  It doesn't
>care whether the "#! rnews" starts at the beginning of the line.
>(I verified this by looking at the code and with an experiment,
>tacking some un-newlined-text onto a couple of articles before
>they got batched.  They still arrived at the destination intact.)
>
>--> So there is no black hole.  Go back to sleep. <--

I disagree, since I've been able to reproduce the bug here on actual runs
of news batches. Things do get out of sync, and data is being lost.

chuq
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