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From: dhp@att.ATT.COM (Price)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: netnews cancer FIX!
Summary: fix only damaging if the problem occurs in the first place
Keywords: microsoft articles cancer duplicates
Message-ID: <202@att.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Oct 88 21:30:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: att.202
References: <165@att.ATT.COM> <14854@ninja.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Indian Hill
Lines: 16

In article <14854@ninja.UUCP>, gdb@ninja.UUCP (David Butler) writes:
> In article <165@att.ATT.COM> dhp@att.ATT.COM (Price) writes:
> ->This will translate all tabs in the message ID into spaces,
> 
> DO NOT DO THIS!!  I've tried this one and then other things break that
> depend on spaces to seperate parts of commands, like cancel messages!!!

Luckily, while true, this will only break cancels for articles with message
IDs that contain tabs.  Meanwhile, this fix held off the worst of the damage
on the AT&T part of the backbone.  I await the official patch with 
Antici---------Pation!
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						Douglas H. Price
						Postmaster, att
						att!dhp