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Re: Can't reply to lugnet.general 2963
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 27 Feb 1999 07:57:54 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
> James Brown wrote:
> > Just what it says. Via the web interface, I click on the "reply" button, write
> > my note, change the newsgroups, followup-to and subject, and get the following
> > error:
> >
> > 441 defhdrs.awk: no Subject: header!
> >
> > It also generated the same error no matter which of the possibilities I changed
> > (not change the newsgroups, no followup-to, etc)
>
> Thanks for reporting this, James.
>
> Wow, something is funked up with the References line in the article (I can see
> the rejected article in the dead-articles file on the server). There's an
> extra blank line after the References header for some weird reason (not your
> fault). A blank line signals the end of the headers, so there's no subject
> line in the message (even though there is -- but it's in the body of the
> message rather than the headers).
>
> Hrrm...
Well, here's another clue: the References header in the message you posted is
~511 characters long. I think one of the components somewhere in CNews (the
newsserver software) is cutting the line incorrectly if/when it's truncating
the line to 511/512 characters. The coincidence here is that the last
Message-ID just happens to line up perfectly (not being chopped) at the end of
the line, which makes me suspect a line 'fold' pipe somewhere.
Here is the References header, wrapped to fit in ~75 columns:
References: <MPG.113241ec12ae56c89896fa@lugnet.com> <36C887FF.8D9F5F82@
lynx.bc.ca> <MPG.11326482174dc7ae9896fc@lugnet.com> <36C8A9E4.1F8D7CE@l
ynx.bc.ca> <MPG.11328744476ebad9896ff@lugnet.com> <F798Bz.4rE@lugnet.co
m> <F79A5w.71z@lugnet.com> <36CC3E8C.74BB5646@umich.edu> <36d83106.8447
2957@lugnet.com> <36D18C8C.A5BF62BD@umich.edu> <36d4abe4.2313125@lugnet
.com> <F7o83J.9 <36D449DD.58F405FA@umich.edu> <F7oAsz.C6z@lugnet.com> <
36d45292.10834089@lugnet.com> <F7q2t0.BpB@lugnet.com> <36d9cba9.8316517
4@lugnet.com>
^
See -- there's a word boundary there where the ^ is marking it. The chances
of this happening are about 1 in 25 once you get really deep in a thread. I
noticed an odd thing yesterday where a post had 2 headers in the body of the
message -- must be the same thing happening, but at the time I thought it was
just a bad newsreader or the poster adding the headers to the body by hand for
some odd reason.
Anyway, it could still be anything (even the web interface directly) but I
suspect something in the injection mechanisms of the newsserver.
I'll have to look at this tomorrow or the next day; I've got to be up late
tonight packing a lot more for AucZILLA VIII and we're visiting Suzanne's
family tomorrow on short notice.
--Todd
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