Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdchema.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn From: donn@sdchema.UUCP (Donn Seeley) Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: Netnews on site 'linus' may have the article truncation bug Message-ID: <1056@sdchema.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 21:03:46 EST Article-I.D.: sdchema.1056 Posted: Sun Feb 19 21:03:46 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 03:49:08 EST References: <725@linus.UUCP> Organization: Used Softwear Jobbers, Inc. (Clandestine Computer Services) Lines: 23 After a long period of frustration at not being able to find the perpetrator of article truncations, I think I may have found the answer. The article <725@linus.UUCP> arrived at our site with the front end munged and with a nice short path. Moreover, the format of the article suggested that it began with a tab, which is the source of a well-known bug. A test article I sent that went through all the sites on the path of <725@linus.UUCP> except linus came back to me intact, even though it began with a tab. This is hardly conclusive, but it at least suggests that someone at linus ought to check their software. I have sent mail to linus!usenet and linus!root containing the bug fix, but if (as is often the case) no one reads mail intended for either 'usenet' or 'root', then the effort will have been for nought. If you are reading this article on linus or an immediate neighbor of linus, could you see that the appropriate authorities have a look at root's mail? It sure would be nice to zap the bug at a fairly major site like linus... Donn Seeley UCSD Chemistry Dept. ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn 32 52' 30"N 117 14' 25"W (619) 452-4016 sdcsvax!sdchema!donn@noscvax