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From: foperator@tekno.chalmers.se (Daniel Berglund)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: ADD FILE problem with 5.7
Message-ID: <5267@tekno.chalmers.se>
Date: 20 Dec 89 09:44:00 GMT
Organization: Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
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I have a little problem with V5.7 (vms 5.1-1). The news arrive as batch
files, which are known to be well-formed,  and the poor computer spends half
the night unpacking them. Then the log file sometimes (now! :-( ) looks 
like this:

Add <foo@bar> rec.pets: JUNK (Input file is empty)
Add <foo@bar> junk: REJECT (Input file is empty)

and so on. The percentage of vanished items varies between, say, 50%-100%.
There are usually several hundred items in junk.

The surviving items are placed in random groups with random subjects.

Questions:
	is (was) this a known problem in 5.7?
	will NEWS behave well if I "upgrade" to 5.9B? 5.9A? 5.9?
	is the latest version of news available for FTP somewhere?
	(preferrably in a _BACKUP_ saveset or unpacked, tar doesn't like me)


Thanks for anything. Please mail your answers, otherwise they may end up in
alt.flame..

-- 
Daniel Berglund       (foperator@tekno.chalmers.se, BITNET: FOP@SECTHF51)
Chalmers University of Technology, G|teborg, Sweden