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From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: netnews cancer FIX!
Message-ID: <e6muC#pJCP0=eric@snark.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 88 14:56:10 GMT
References: <165@att.att.com>
Organization: Earth Station Avernus
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In article <165@att.att.com>, dhp@att.ATT.COM (Price) writes:
> Here follows an EMERGENCY PATCH for header.c that corrects the weakness
> in the netnews history mechanism that permits this to happen.
> 
> Hopefully, an official patch will follow from the POWERS THAT BE.

The *permanent* fix that will go into 3.0 is to smash tabs and spaces out
of the ID field entirely. There's no reason to leave the space in there.
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      Eric S. Raymond                     (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews)
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