Re: 'bad overview record' in tin

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From: Gary Woodman
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 00:00

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mjm@SPAMMERS.hna.BUGGER.com.OFF.au wrote:
: On 8 May 1997 04:07:14 GMT, Mark Heath <mheath@netspace.net.au> wrote:
: >Frank Fox (ffox@mail.powerup.com.au) wrote:
: >: I'm using rtin on my linux system to read news remotely via NNTP. Whenever I
: >: enter a group, I get the message 'bad overview record' followed by a lot of
: >
: >This is caused by the server having bad database speedup records

: This is not necissarily the case.

: Tin 1.2x hard-codes the size of the buffer used for receiving the
: overview record to 256 characters.  So when a thread starts to
: get a bit long, the overview record doesn't fit.

: it to something more reasonable.  Or upgrade to TIN 1.3beta.  Or
: get a real newsreader.  :-)

Such as...?

tin is so much better than everything else I've tried, I hope you have a
good story ;-)

Gary

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Subject: Re: 'bad overview record' in tin
Date: 1997/05/17
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