Xref: utzoo news.software.b:1147 news.admin:1660 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!unisoft!hoptoad!gnu From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin Subject: Re: "linecount expected" messages Message-ID: <4136@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 29 Feb 88 11:43:50 GMT References: <2995@fluke.COM> Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco Lines: 41 battan@tc.fluke.COM (Jim Battan) wrote: > : linecount expected n1, got n2 > where n1 is usually 1 less than n2, but not always. I have been watching this for a while, off and on. Here is a message from a few months ago about it. I don't think anyone has looked at the news software to see if this is the right answer, yet... From: hoptoad!gnu (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Missing lines from articles Message-Id: <2265@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 5 Jun 87 12:16:56 GMT In article <255@catsim.UUCP>, tony@catsim.UUCP (Tony Cratz) writes: > It also seems that it is ALWAYS one line which is > missing... I got a copy of a message back by email after it had left my machine via news paths, and noticed something funny. The messages matched exactly except that where an "Xref:" line existed on my disk, there was an extra blank line in the copy I got from the outside world. Aha! I suspect that whatever software is snuffing "Xref:" lines is not DELETING the line, but just EMPTYING it down to a newline. Since in most cases the Xref: line is the last line of the header, this just makes the message appear to be one line longer. The local news stats always show a few messages from me to ptsfa which are exactly one line longer than their Lines: header. Also, about half the sites with line length problems reported are off by a single line in all the bad articles. Now if the Xref: line was somewhere in the middle of the header...hmm... have you ever noticed those messages where half the header appears in the text of the message? Hmm! Anybody seen the spot(s) in the news software where the Xref: lines get junked? Can you look there again? -- {pyramid,ptsfa,amdahl,sun,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com "Watch me change my world..." -- Liquid Theatre