Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!polaris!herbie From: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong) Newsgroups: net.news.adm Subject: garbage articles in net.micro.atari16 Message-ID: <627@polaris.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Jul-86 13:33:14 EDT Article-I.D.: polaris.627 Posted: Mon Jul 7 13:33:14 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 10-Jul-86 02:32:48 EDT Distribution: net Organization: IBM TJ Watson RC Lines: 21 i've tried contacting Eric Fair by phone but he's incredibly hard to get in touch with. i finally got a number that gave me a carrier so i suppose i must have succeeded 8-). it appears that a whole bunch of articles are coming from cernvax (on BITNET into the UCBJADE gateway) for submitting news articles via mail. somebody is looping generating longer and longer headers in front of the original article. with the speed of BITNET, this could amount to 20 or more articles per day easily. will someone find out what's going on and fix it? Herb Chong, IBM Research... I'm still user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble.... VNET,BITNET,NETNORTH,EARN: HERBIE AT YKTVMH UUCP: {allegra|cbosgd|cmcl2|decvax|ihnp4|seismo}!philabs!polaris!herbie CSNET: herbie%ibm.com@csnet-relay ARPA: herbie@ibm.com, herbie%yktvmh.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu ======================================================================== DISCLAIMER: what you just read was produced by pouring lukewarm tea for 42 seconds onto 9 people chained to 6 Ouiji boards.