Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihnp4.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!allegra!eagle!harpo!ihnp4!pcl From: pcl@ihnp4.UUCP (Paul C. Lustgarten) Newsgroups: net.news.config,att.news Subject: Responses to netnews articles mailed from 'vnews' lost! Message-ID: <548@ihnp4.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 21:01:14 EST Article-I.D.: ihnp4.548 Posted: Fri Feb 10 21:01:14 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 06:35:55 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 20 We have just discovered that our version of vnews has been quietly throwing away ALL replies - i.e., the 'r' command is broken. The observed action is that an 'r' command puts you in your EDITOR, you enter your reply, and on exiting, vnews continues as expected - and as though the reply you just composed had been sent. It instead never even made it to /bin/mail. This condition has presumably been in effect for several months, and (apparently) applies to all netnews sites at Bell Labs' Indian Hill and Short Hills locations (about 80 sites - ih*, iw*, ix*, and hl*). Since we have not yet tracked down the cause of this misbehavior, we don't know if it is a purely local bug or not. We encourage all other sites running 'vnews' to confirm that their replies are indeed being sent. Paul Lustgarten AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hill, NJ ihnp4!pcl ihnp4!hlexa!pcl