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From: tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,news.software.b
Subject: How to trim extra-long headers
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Date: 9 Feb 89 06:01:39 GMT
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This problem recently came to my attention:

A user posted a followup to a local newsgroup.  The References: header was
*very* long (205 characters, not including the References: part).  When you
tried to followup on the article, you got this error:

%interp buffer flow

and rn would exit, complaining about an internal error.

This article was posted via a NNTP server using the fake inews supplied with
the NNTP distribution.  Apparently, the real inews doesn't force a maximum
upper length on headers like this.

Has this been a problem to any other sites before?  Does anybody have a
magic set of patches (to either the real or fake inews) that will trim
headers to some maximum length?

Tim
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