Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!msb From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.b Subject: Subject lines like thisSubject lines like this Message-ID: <677@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 21:39:37 EDT Article-I.D.: lsuc.677 Posted: Wed Jun 26 21:39:37 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 22:26:24 EDT References: <694@ihlpg.UUCP> <15417@watmath.UUCP> Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) Distribution: net Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 27 Keywords: Fix your postnews Xref: utcs net.news.adm:327 net.news.b:997 Summary: Fix it! (Right, how many people tried to decrypt this before reading?) I'm reposting this from net.jokes.d in the hope that it may catch a bit more attention from those who can do something about it: the netnews administrators. Just add one line of code and change two more... jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens) writes in net.jokes.d: > In article <694@ihlpg.UUCP> sed408@ihlpg.UUCP (s. dugan) writes: > >Before I get any flames about ROTting something and not marking it as ROTted, > >let me just say that I thought that readnews would mark the Subject line for > >me. I was wrong. > > You were right. > > Postnews (in C) for news 2.10.2 has a trivial bug in it. It does make a > very nice heading, but unfortunatly writes all over itself in the process. > The fix is trivial. (i.e. Do it now) > > Go to the postnews.c file, and look for where it asks you the "could this > be offensive" question. At that point, it uses the buffer buf as a > parameter to a call. Create a new buf, call it jbuf for joke-buf, and > use that in that place rather than buf. Ta da - your postnews now behaves. > > John Reposted here by Mark Brader