Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!forgen!jim
From: jim@forgen.UUCP (Jim Hood)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem with inews (Inbound news is garbled)
Message-ID: <218@forgen.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 17:10:56 GMT
References: <875@versatc.UUCP>
Organization: OMNR, Forest Resources, Toronto, Ontario
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From article <875@versatc.UUCP>, by tran@versatc.UUCP (4317):
> 
>  Could somebody please explain to me what these error messages mean:
> 
>  [stuff..] 
>
>     ===== stderr was =====
> inews: : Inbound news is garbled
> 
> [more stuff]

When this happend to me, it turned out to be a compression problem -
my feed was doing 16-bit compression, but my system can only handle
12-bit. This is v. easily fixed in the invocation of sendbatch.
This is ONE possibility and worth checking out.
--
Jim Hood
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