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From: munnari!anu.anu.oz.au!gih900@CSC1.ANU.OZ.AU (Geoff Huston)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: RE: Problems with *very* large To-fields
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Date: 12 Feb 90 16:08:43 GMT
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Reply-To: Geoff Huston <munnari!anu.anu.oz.au!gih900@CSC1.ANU.OZ.AU>
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>There seems to be a problem with news when posting a message with a HUGE
>number of continuation lines on the To-field.  I have automated several
>mailing-list to local-newsgroup feeds here.  I started having problems
>with one of them, postings for IEEE seminars that I was getting from Lee
>Rothstein at DEC.
     
In NEWSADD.C _ALL_ message header lines are stored in an internal array
of fixed size. The message given here:
     
     
>To:  Moss@cs.umass.EDU, RLevine%East@Sun.COM, Walt@OSF.ORG,
> { 170 (!!) lines deleted}
>        kehrlich@East.Sun.COM, Geoff@East@Sun.COM, Hartman@OSF.ORG,
>        WMM%HPCND@SDE.HP.COM, mishkin@apollo.com, gutman@apollo.com
>
>                     PLEASE POST AND REDISTRIBUTE
                                      ------------   !!!!!!
     
simply exceeds the parser's available space.
     
I could a) make the memory allocation dynamic (which would slow things down a
bit, but may do the trick or b) put the headers in a temp file (which would
slow things down a lot)
     
     
Geoff