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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: inews error message
Message-ID: <*3CAY|@rpi.edu>
Date: 27 Dec 89 21:59:04 GMT
References: <1271@cnca.UUCP>
Followup-To: news.software.b
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In article <1271@cnca.UUCP> scarpell@cnca.UUCP (Claude Scarpelli) writes:
> I'm using the news system on a Bull DPX2000 running SPIX (Syst V.2)
> What is the meaning of this message, send by /usr/bin/inews :
>           inews: Inbound news is garbled.

There could be other reasons for this, but back when rpi.edu was a B
News site I would see this anytime we got an article for which its
byte-count in the #! rnews header did not match the byte count for the
article.  This would usually arise when transmission of the batch was
somehow interrupted.

For example, the following would probably generate that message:
-----
#! rnews 1234
Path: site!user
From: user@site.UUCP
Subject: Truncated articles appe
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Dave
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