Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site vu44.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!mcvax!vu44!jack From: jack@vu44.UUCP (Jack Jansen) Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: Re: bugs in 2.10.2? Message-ID: <364@vu44.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-Aug-84 06:26:10 EDT Article-I.D.: vu44.364 Posted: Sat Aug 25 06:26:10 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Aug-84 04:35:39 EDT References: <212d14b9.1de6@apollo.uucp> Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 17 [This is probably a very stupid remark, but I'm virtually immune to flaming, so here goes:] As I understand, batched news looks like #! news 123 <123 lines of article> #! news 34 etc. Now, if someone underway screws the 123, or maybe even if it looses the following newline, or whatever, news might think the article has -1 lines, or 65535, or whatever garbage was in the variable before it was used to read '123' lines. If this is the case, it might be a good idea to do some kind of checking, like a checksum on the article, or on the number of lines at least. Maybe something like multiplying the number by seven, or another prime. Jack Jansen, {philabs|decvax}!mcvax!vu44!jack