Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdccsu3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!whuxle!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!brian From: brian@sdccsu3.UUCP Newsgroups: net.followup,net.wanted,net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: USENET line eater? Message-ID: <1916@sdccsu3.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 20:36:45 EDT Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.1916 Posted: Mon Jun 11 20:36:45 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Jun-84 00:43:14 EDT References: <1826@dartvax.UUCP> Organization: UCSD beer & pizza society Lines: 28 Arrgh. The original news line eater bug was simply this: when the first character of the body of the message was whitespace, the first 1024 bytes or so of the message were dropped. One fix to this cured the problem UNLESS the first character was a tab. In those cases, the messages with spaces for indentation on the first line, or with a null line (ie, the first character was a newline) would get through ok, but then one with a tab would get lost. Most sites should have fixed it by now, unless they either can't (do binary-only sites have it fixed yet?) or don't care. The number of lost lines has dropped but as recently as a couple of days ago I saw one. (Yes, I sent them mail). Does this help people understand what was going on? -- -Brian Kantor, UC San Diego ihnp4 \ Kantor@Nosc decvax \ akgua ----- sdcsvax ----- brian dcdwest/ ucbvax/ "I'll never be cruel to a gin and tonic again!"