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Subject: 
Re: Posting problem
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Tue, 1 Mar 2005 22:19:49 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman wrote:
In lugnet.admin.general, James Wilson wrote:
I changed the message format to Plain Text, and it posted fine.

Wow, that is very weird.  Can you give a pointer to the message that did
post correctly?

I've had this kind of problem before, but it seems to be random when it
pops up.

Hmm, that's disturbing.  I wonder if some hidden translation is happening
on the From line somehow/somewhere which is confusing the known-name lookup.
Should be enough information in the logs to diagnose the problem given the
one that succeeded and the timeframe as starting points.

--Todd

Todd,
The message to which I was replying is:
http://news.lugnet.com/build/minifigs/?n=1501
and my reply is:
http://news.lugnet.com/build/minifigs/?n=1503

maybe it's got something to do with the length of the post?  The original post I
was replying to is quite long, but I had snipped everything...  just thinking
out loud...
Thanks for checking it out!
James



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(...) No, the length wouldn't be the issue. If it's giving you an error message about making sure posting setup has been done, it means the 'From' line was somehow mangled. Unless(!) the webserver was unable to contact the NNTP server in those (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  Re: Posting problem
 
(...) Wow, that is very weird. Can you give a pointer to the message that did post correctly? (...) Hmm, that's disturbing. I wonder if some hidden translation is happening on the From line somehow/somewhere which is confusing the known-name lookup. (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.admin.general)

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