In article <1995Aug2.165647@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (John B Harlan) writes:
>
>>         Could someone tell me if I am doing any good posting all these messed
>> up message numbers? I want to be helpful, not annoying.
>
> Those numbers have been very helpful.  Thanks, Dennis.  MCIS Technical Support
> (in the person of Rob Pickering, sitting in for the vacationing Kent Covert)
> is investigating this problem, and hopes to pinpoint it this evening or early
> tomorrow.  Rob says he now has enough numbers to go on, so you don't need to
> post any more, but he and I both appreciate it.
 
As far as I can tell, this appeared to be a problem originating at Ohio
State.  I think it is fixed now.  Has anyone seen this problem recently?
 
The problem came with the way OSU sends us NEWS.  Lots of articles are put
together in the same file and are seperated by a line that looks like:
    #! rnews 12345
where '12345' is the number of characters in the article.  The problem was
that some articles were truncated.  Therefore the system would grab the
first 12,345 characters in the file assuming they were all the same article
when really there were several articles, the first of which was truncated
before the 12,345 characters were completed.
 
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                                     Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
                                     Miami Computing and Information Services
                                     Miami University, Oxford, OH
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