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From: kre@munnari.OZ (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: article-eater irony
Message-ID: <928@munnari.OZ>
Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 14:52:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: munnari.928
Posted: Wed Sep 18 14:52:12 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 06:31:35 EDT
References: <11854@Glacier.ARPA>
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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Summary: Nit-picking

In article <11854@Glacier.ARPA>, reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) writes:
> Robert Elz posted to net.news.b an article saying that the article-eater bug
> is not real, and that he is unable to duplicate the problem. His article
> never arrived at Glacier, having been eaten by the article-eater bug
> somewhere along the way. I love it! Luckily, he mailed me a copy of the
> article so I know what he said.

Well, I didn't say that the bug doesn't exist, I just said that I
hadn't been able to make it happen.  I asked Brian (or Chuq) to
send me something so that I could see it myself.  I have asked
Brian again since.  I still have yet to see it.

Just to confuse the issue, my previous article - the one Brian refers
to (<906@munnari.OZ>) arrived safely at decvax.  Decvax forwards news
to decwrl.  Brian told me that that item never made it to decwrl.
This is where it gets interesting - the decvax -> decwrl link does NOT
use the batching code that apparently has this bug in it, it uses
Piet Beertema's (mcvax!piet) version.  That is similar in action,
but not the same (certainly the code is different).

So, given that my article didn't make it to decwrl (nor to glacier,
who get news from decwrl), it wasn't the problem that has been
(occasionally) discussed here that did it!

Robert Elz		seismo!munnari!kre	kre%munnari.oz@seismo.css.gov