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