Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncc!lyndon From: lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Somebody is messing up headers!!! Message-ID: <10222@ncc.Nexus.CA> Date: 16 May 88 20:57:40 GMT Distribution: na Organization: Nexus Computing Inc. Lines: 27 A 'version' control message came out of oddjob a few days ago. Along the line somebody has been adding spaces and newlines to the Path: header. The net result of this is the 6000+ replies running through our site will do nothing other than run up the phone bill - and our uunet bill :-( Here is a copy of the original control message as it arrived on ncc. My guess is that uwmcsd1 is a BITNET site (8 char field padded with spaces). Dunno about the newline after bloom-beacon ... Path: ncc!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!nrl-cmf!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!cunyvm!nysernic!cmx!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!udel!burdvax!sdcrdcf!oberon!bloom-beacon !tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uwmcsd1 !dogie!uwvax!oddjob!amd From: bbtest1@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) Newsgroups: news.admin.ctl Subject: version Message-ID: Date: 12 May 88 18:22:46 GMT Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 4 Control: version Distribution: usa Lines: 0 Approved: Matt -- {alberta,utzoo,uunet}!ncc!lyndon lyndon@Nexus.CA