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From: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Zero length articles
Message-ID: <270@ncr-sd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 16:54:32 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 26 16:54:32 1985
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In article <170@kitc.UUCP> ladm@kitc.UUCP (John Burgess) writes:
>We're running 2.10.2 news, and recently I've notices lots
>of article files with NOTHING IN THEM.  That's right, 0 byte files!
>  ...
>Got a fix for it?

I have seen it several times.  It is usually due to running out of
space on your news filesystem.  It's apparently a condition that's
not detected -- although I'm not sure what could be done to recover,
it would be nice to try and detect such things and not leave garbage
that confuses news readers and expire.
-- 
-- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo    Greg@ncr-sd.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA