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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
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Subject: RE: Troubles posting news (V5.8)
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Date: 18 Feb 90 02:08:09 GMT
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Reply-To: Geoff Huston <munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET>
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>I'm posting the following on behalf of a new DECUS uucp user.
>I note that 184EC is an RMS code for ~"can't add record, duplicate key,
>DUP not set" (the last bit meaning that duplicate key values aren't allowed).
>Any ideas?
>
>        --- Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates, San Diego CA
>
>I can POST to local newsgroups fine, but when I try to Post to a sci. group,
>for example, I get the message:
>Error: Post - (sci.physics) Cannot add to Newsitem index file (B00184EC)
>
>Any suggestions?
     
This was a 5.8 bug. If the news.group file "lost sync" with the news.item
file, then the put would fail for certain newsgroups.
     
The fix is in the do_new_item code in V5.9.  The bug was reported and fixed in
May / June 1989.
     
     
Geoff