Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!james
From: james@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Jim Lowe)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Somebody is messing up headers!!!
Message-ID: <5831@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 88 18:23:29 GMT
References: <10222@ncc.Nexus.CA>
Sender: daemon@uwmcsd1.UUCP
Reply-To: james@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Jim Lowe)
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Lines: 59

In article <10222@ncc.Nexus.CA> lyndon@ncc.Nexus.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
>
>...My
>guess is that uwmcsd1 is a BITNET site (8 char field padded with spaces).
>Dunno about the newline after bloom-beacon ...

Nope... uwmcsd1 is a Unix 4.2 machine soon to be 4.3.  Nice guess though.

>
>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: <test-1@oddjob.uchicago.edu>
>Date: 12 May 88 18:22:46 GMT
>Organization: University of Chicago
>Lines: 4
>
>
>Control: version
>Distribution: usa
>Lines: 0
>Approved: Matt

Looks like someone really munged this message up.  Here is a copy of
the message <test-1@oddjob.uchicago.edu> as it arrived on uwmcsd1 (the
"\"'s I added to the Path: line to make it more readable):

	Path: uwmcsd1!dogie!uwvax!oddjob!amdahl!ames!att!bellcore!\
	clyde!cmcl2!decvax!decwrl!gatech!hplabs!husc6!linus!mcnc!\
	mit-eddie!nbires!ncar!philabs!purdue!rutgers!tektronix!ucbvax!\
	ucsd!ukma!ulysses!uw-beaver!oddjob.uchicago.edu!bbtest1
	From: bbtest1@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford)
	Newsgroups: news.admin.ctl
	Subject: version
	Message-ID: <test-1@oddjob.uchicago.edu>
	Date: 12 May 88 18:22:46 GMT
	Control: version
	Reply-To: bbtest1@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford)
	Distribution: usa
	Organization: University of Chicago
	Lines: 0
	Approved: Matt
	

Everything looks fine from here?  Maybe someelse down the line?  Your
version of the message also dropped the Control, Distribution, Lines,
and Approved headers down into the text of the message.  Not good.

It also looks like the Path: line got severly truncated somewhere down
the line.  Must have hit a static limit somewhere on the Path: line
length.  Old versions of netnews isn't good news?


	- Jim 

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