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Re: Posting problem with the web-interface!
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sat, 8 Jan 2000 03:24:50 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Franks writes:
> There's a problem replying to
> <http://www.lugnet.com/off-topic/debate/?n=3378>
> while using the interface.. I get:
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> --
> Your message was not accepted.
> Response from the news server:
> 441 defhdrs.awk: no Subject: header!
> --
Well, isn't that a fine bunch of potatoes.
Hrmrm. Here's what shows up in the dead-articles file on the server
(indented with | character)...
|X-Nntp-Posting-Host: lugnet.com
|Newsgroups: lugnet.off-topic.debate
|References: <38721886.DD075198@uswest.net> <FntKEF.B7y@lugnet.com>
<38724152.EC9D21B2@cleanweb.net> <38730C3E.AE35B152@pilot.msu.edu>
<Fnv9B7.H2D@lugnet.com> <387356CD.F163AA7@voyager.net>
<3882db17.91566531@lugnet.com> <38741821.9B62453@uswest.net>
<38741B3F.F8D3F7F6@voyager.net> <FnwDE9.Eos@lugnet.com>
<FnxEKG.Iz4@lugnet.com> <3874E642.D0715C15@voyager.net>
<Fny09J.L1o@lugnet.com> <Fny956 <slrn87c1ls.klj.mattdm@jadzia.bu.edu>
<FnzMpC.7Eu@lugnet.com> <FnzoAK.Erx@lugnet.com>
<38b59d4f.272385451@lugnet.com>
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|Subject: Re: Libitarian guff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
|From: "Richard Franks" <spontificus@__nospam__yahoo.com>
|Organization: none
|Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
|Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
|X-Mailer: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.13-7mdk i586)
|X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.250.143.202
|X-NNTP-Gateway: http://www.lugnet.com/news/post/
|etc...
So it looks like there's a bugaboo somewhere -- possibly related to the
length of the 'References:' header -- where it inserts a bogus blank line
between the 'References:' and the 'Subject:' headers.
First thing I need to find out is whether this extra line is being put there
by the web-client to the NNTP server, or internally by the NNTP server itself
somewhere...
Thanks for reporting this,
--Todd
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Posting problem with the web-interface!
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| (...) There's also that <Fny956 thingy. That should rightfully be trimmed by the newsserver, being not a valid Reference (them things, say the RFC, are enclosed in <>'s). Anyway, by my count, there are exactly 511 characters in that reference. 512 (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Posting problem with the web-interface!
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| (...) Ok, I think I've finally got it narrowed down. Looks like there's a horrible bug in the spawn() function of spawn.c of the NNTP Reference Implementation. Here's the loop where it spools stdin out to a tempfile, minus a few superfluous lines of (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Posting problem with the web-interface!
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| There's a problem replying to (URL) while using the interface.. I get: -- Your message was not accepted. Response from the news server: 441 defhdrs.awk: no Subject: header! -- Which isn't true for any of the many times that I tried it! Incidentally, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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