Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site munnari.OZ Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!munnari!kre 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 Lines: 25 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