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Re: NNTP Posting Broken?
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:30:55 GMT
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LUGNET Admin wrote:
> 
> In lugnet.admin.nntp, "Frank Filz" <ffilz@mindspring.com> writes:
> > Ok, perhaps I'm overreacting, but it seems that NNTP replying is broken. A
> > reply to my own post seems to have just gone in the bit bucket. Hmm, I was
> > getting authentications almost immediately, now I'm still haven't got one for a
> > test post.
> > 
> > Well, Todd had said he really wanted to avoid having to do authentication. I
> > had supposed that it could be done without too much pain, but it looks like
> > it's pretty painful. I hope this doesn't cause folks to give up on Lugnet, I
> > feel like my posting may go way down, I'm not sure yet.
> 
> I think you're right -- something is broken.  I'm sure it's entirely
> fixable.  I'll enable more logging and get to the bottom of it.  Likely,
> it's something broken in the code I just added.  It's extremely rare (as far
> as I'm aware) that lugnet.com's outgoing or incoming mail is lost; in my
> experience it's been super-reliable, except for times of DNS outages, but
> that doesn't appear to be the case here.
> 
> I see 6 messages from you (Frank) in the pending area.  I'll ask the server
> to resend emails for each of these, and we'll see what happens, and if it
> comes up with some weird errors or something.

Just got the authenticates for those. None of those are the ones which
didn't make it.

--
Frank Filz

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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com



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  Re: NNTP Posting Broken?
 
(...) Oh! OK, hmmm... Thanks, that's good to know. Hmmm, must generate more clues. :-) OK, so at least it's consistant in that when it decides to drop something, it's not even putting it in the pending area. (25 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  Re: NNTP Posting Broken?
 
(...) I think you're right -- something is broken. I'm sure it's entirely fixable. I'll enable more logging and get to the bottom of it. Likely, it's something broken in the code I just added. It's extremely rare (as far as I'm aware) that (...) (25 years ago, 18-Jun-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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