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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
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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
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