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Re: Line wrapping in lugnet.cad.dat files
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Date: 
Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:16:07 GMT
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legoverse@geocities.com (Terry K) writes:

Yup, that's how newsreaders cancel things -- they send a special control
message inside a new article and the server figures out what to do.

Um....  When I tried to cancel, I got an error message back saying posts to lugnet.cad.dat MUST
have raw dat file data in them.

LOL!!  :)  Ooops, duh, that's my fault...it should certainly make exceptions
for control messages, shouldn't it.  I'll log that as a bug.  Thanks for
discovering and reporting.


Hmmm....  OK, so I tried again, but this time I pasted a
single line of dat data into the body.   It went through that time.

Cool, good idea.  Nice workaround.  :)


Will that screw things up?

Apparently not.  :)  And in theory, it _shouldn't_, because the part that
checks whether the message is a cancel/control message is separate from the
part that checks for .dat content.  Each check doesn't [currently] know
about the other.


So far, the post is still there on the web page.

The web-interface isn't yet too bright about noticing cancelled posts at the
group-summary level, but if you go in and click on the article -- i.e.,

   http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.cad.dat:50

then it should tell you,

   Article 50 does not exist in group lugnet.cad.dat.

--Todd


p.s.  Forgot to set your line length back down to a <80 value...



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(...) I feel like a beta tester... :-) (...) Dang. You mean it _must_ be less than 80? I thought I might be able to leave a comfortable margin in there. Guess I'll have to use my trusty o'l memory to remember to... ah, to.. what were we talking (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) Um.... When I tried to cancel, I got an error message back saying posts to lugnet.cad.dat MUST have raw dat file data in them. Hmmm.... OK, so I tried again, but this time I pasted a single line of dat data into the body. It went through that (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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