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From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Reliable news batches, anyone?
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Date: 19 Mar 89 14:06:41 GMT
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Reply-To: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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How about a news batch format that doesn't depend on something as
system-dependent as character count?  If a news batch is sent over a
link that truncates long lines (like Path: or References:), then part
of the #!rnews line for the next article gets eaten.  (Ever wonder
about "linecount expected 24, got 23"?)  Unbatching resynchs itself,
but you lose that article.  And sending a batch over a mail link that
changes '\n' to CR-LF, you have to compensate for an extra character
each line.

Something like internet-style dot-terminated articles, maybe.  The
disadvantage is slower processing.. (unless you're going to do line
munging anyway) (and resynchronizing is almost as slow)
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Felix Lee	flee@shire.cs.psu.edu	*!psuvax1!shire!flee