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From: Mark Heath
Date: Thu, 08 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.

This is caused by the server having bad database speedup records 
(overview records)  These Notices are reported to other news readers 
aswell it's just they dont report them to stderr (or whereever)  
They are just a Notice (not as severe as a Warning) Just ignore them, they 
dont affect reading news.

Maybe report this to your news service provider, its possibly a bug in 
their newsserver.  Or it could be just a once off corruption occurance in 
the database and will be fixed when the server re-writes the overview 
record.  

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From: mheath@netspace.net.au (Mark Heath)
Subject: Re: 'bad overview record' in tin
Date: 1997/05/08
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