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Re: Government's role [Was: Re: What happened?]
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Date: 
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:59:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, jasper@janssen.dynip.com (Jasper Janssen) writes:
> [...]
> In the case of posting via the web-interface screwing up - I would
> place my bets on the "newsreader" bits of perl (Todd, do you make an
> NNTP connection to localhost to inject articles, or do you do deeper
> voodoo?).

It makes an actual NNTP connection (no voodoo) and doesn't limit the length
of the References field via the HTML form or anything like that.


> I haven't yet noticed this bug in Netscape 4.5[01] showing up in other
> newsgroups on my regular server, though. I fear it may be an
> unfortunate interaction between the Todd-modified CNews and Netscape.

I didn't modify any of those parts of CNews.

--Todd



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  Re: Government's role [Was: Re: What happened?]
 
(...) Hm. (...) Odd. Maybe it's just an interaction between CNews and Netscape, then - the servers at my ISP run Diablo on linux and <something> on Solaris, respectively. Jasper (27 years ago, 2-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
  Hey Jasper, you there? ( Re: Government's role [Was: Re: What happened?]
 
Is something up with dynip.com?? I am getting mail bounces from both my mail accounts trying to mail Jasper there. Jasper Janssen wrote: <usual babble> (27 years ago, 2-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: Government's role [Was: Re: What happened?]
 
(...) I've been following this phenomenon for a while: (URL) interesting to note that this was noticed back in February, as well: (URL) suspect the newsserver isn't handling the references for extremely large threads properly. Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 22-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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