From: peter@zeus.DIALix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
Newsgroups: news.software.nn
Subject: Re: Posting problems? - The Reason..
Date: 14 Sep 1992 19:13:35 +0800
Organization: Karam Pty. Ltd., Perth, Western Australia.
NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.dialix.oz.au

peter@zeus.DIALix.oz.au (Peter Wemm) writes:

>I have recieved mail to the effect that some of the articles that I have
>posted were not transmitted correctly in some parts of the world..

>Has anybody seen or heard about this?

>-Peter

Well.. It seems that something bizare happened at my news-feed site...

The logical explanation of what happened is that everything after the
"From:" and "Path:" lines got deleted, and the line "Newsgroups:" was
truncated.  This (I think) happened a reasonable way upstream from me, because
the next two sites in my feed sequence out of Australia are INN based.
They reject anything that does not fit some very strict requirements.
A valid "Message-ID:" is one of these..

Sadly, The sites after this happened generated a NEW message ID which has
caused them to be treated as independent articles...  This means that 25 odd
(that I have heard of so far) blank articles in my name are circulating
in my name..

If you see one, *please* cancel it! (If you have authorization, that is.. :-)
My mailbox is getting pretty full of "Why are you posting blank articles?"...
*Please* stop... :-)

Also, for some reason, My newsfeed (DIALix) and it's feed (uniwa) and it's feed
(munnari) did not stamp their names in the Path: header....

As I have mentioned before, My site is fed by UUCP to one neighbor only..
It is not possible for my news software to go berzerk and NNTP this all over
the place... :-)

The messages look like this:
>Xref: world news.software.nn:3558
>Path: world!uunet!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!zeus!not-for-mail
>Newsgroups: news.software.nn,comp.sourc
>Subject: <None>
>Message-ID: <1992Sep13.184558.10772@waikato.ac.nz>
>From: peter@zeus.DIALix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
>Date: 13 Sep 92 18:45:57 +1200
>Lines: 0

And these are the message ID's that have turned up...

3558:Message-ID: <1992Sep13.184558.10772@waikato.ac.nz>
3560:Message-ID: <1992Sep13.025620.116@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
3561:Message-ID: <1992Sep13.050612.5747@ais.com>
3562:Message-ID: <1992Sep13.060323.7492@ac.dal.ca>
3563:Message-ID: <13775.2ab2d57c@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
3564:Message-ID: <1992Sep13.012215.26@nsrvan.vanc.wa.us>
3566:Message-ID: <1992Sep13.021520.315@lime.ems.com>
3567:Message-ID: <1270.2ab2ba80@atlas.nafb.trw.com>
3568:Message-ID: <18415.2ab2e9fc@ecs.umass.edu>
3569:Message-ID: <1992Sep13.015729.1302@innovative.com>
3571:Message-ID: <1992Sep13.084220.1542@lub001.lamar.edu>
3572:Message-ID: <1992Sep13.154940.11987@vms.eurokom.ie>
3573:Message-ID: <1992Sep13.233359.3756@darwin.ntu.edu.au>
3574:Message-ID: <18691.2ab3b2bd@levels.unisa.edu.au>
3575:Message-ID: <1992Sep13.165605.8486@swift.cs.tcd.ie>
3576:Message-ID: <19549.2ab37012@ul.ie>
3577:Message-ID: <2322.2ab3a9c4@decus.ch>
3578:Message-ID: <1992Sep14.011804.54669@qut.edu.au>
3579:Message-ID: <1992Sep13.130008.30514@davidsys.com>
3580:Message-ID: <1992Sep13.062051.2435@pacpwr.uucp>
3581:Message-ID: <1992Sep13.184906.270@wrglex.uucp>
3582:Message-ID: <5974.2ab362fa@hayes.com>
3583:Message-ID: <1992Sep13.095052.91@forsyth.wsnc.org>
3585:Message-ID: <1992Sep13.202504.2031@hern.stonemarche.org>
3586:Message-ID: <1992Sep14.124211.64@actew.oz.au>

If somebody who has the power to cancel these wishes to do so, then by all
means, DO IT!

Thanks...


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Peter Wemm : peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au   If it's broke, fix it (The MS-DOS way)
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