From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Title: long source paths blow rnews 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2175
Posted: Tue Jun 15 20:54:39 1982
Received: Tue Jun 15 20:54:39 1982

The char array that news uses to hold the source path is dimensioned
as BUFLEN, i.e. 128.  Yes, Virginia, it is entirely possible to get
long paths than this, for example:

From: decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!phonlab!sdcatta!sdcattb!sdcarl!ucsfcgl!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:CAD:teklabs!tekmdp!emmyl

(This is real, it's the one off tekmdp.1255.)  The symptom is that you
get urps like "Cannot reread article" if you have comprehensive error
reporting from rnews (i.e. an arrangement whereby any complaints get
mailed to somebody appropriate) and you simply lose news otherwise.
Redimensioning it to LBUFLEN might fix this, although you'd need to fix
at least one fgets() call as well, and perhaps other places.  I haven't
tried it yet;  I'll report when I do.