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G'day, I've been trying to post a message to lugnet.market.shopping and lugnet.loc.ca using the web interface, but keep getting the error: Notes: Your message was not accepted. Response from the news server: 441 Cannot accept binary posts. Things (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Help! Can't post a specific message
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(...) Kyle, I found a copy of the rejected post in the dead-articles log on the server, and ran it through the binary detector, and yes, something in the content is tripping the binary detector (a fuzzy-logic recognizer which uses a variety of tests (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) G'day Todd, Thanx for looking in this. Looks like my suspicion was right. I flooded the Test newsgroup with a bunch of experimental posts and also found the problem occurring on the 12th line. I tried adding and removing lines after that and (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh. Sorry, I guess I wasn't explicit enough in my reply -- I consider that the behavior you encountered was a sort of bug. Although the code per se was functioning correctly, it wasn't being smart enough about whitespace (it saw whitespace (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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