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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: this is a test
Keywords: testing
Message-ID: <737@splut.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 88 11:54:03 GMT
References: <108@microsoft	25144,1,1.UUCP> <197@taux02.UUCP>
Reply-To: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
Lines: 20

In article <197@taux02.UUCP> amos@taux02.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
>In article <108@microsoft	25144,1,1.UUCP>, brentp@microsoft.UUCP (Brent Prindle) writes:
>> This is a test.
>This article arrived here several times; the tab in its message-id field
>seems to wreak havoc in the history file, and cause expire to complain
>of an unparsable date. Is there anything a newsadmin can do about it?

My feed got it over *2000* times. The same bug has appeared in messages
in rec.games.hack and in sci.space.shuttle, though not as many times.

I gave up on expire fixing it, and simply issued
'cd /usr/spool/news/misc/test; rm *'.

Time to send messages to postmaster@microsoft...

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