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From: Ian Clark
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 00:00

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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
: garbage. Does anybody know what causes this? Any help with this would much
: appreciated.

I have had similar problems, I suspect this is to with a limit to the size 
of something in the data that holds information for threads.
I think I looked back from the message ID to find the messages causing the
problem and they were all involved in long threads. 
Unfortunately, I havn't solved it, I just haven't seen it lately
--
Ian Clark VK3KRI        ic@deakin.edu.au      http://www.deakin.edu.au/~ic/

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From: ic@deakin.edu.au (Ian Clark)
Subject: Re: 'bad overview record' in tin
Date: 1997/05/06
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