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 In article <832102282_OASIS_@musimind.demon.co.uk>
  vi@musimind.demon.co.uk (Vincent Iyengar) said:-

>I've noticed that it usually takes a few days for an article I have 
>written to appear in a news group.  Sometimes the article or a reply 
>to another article never gets posted at all.  Why is this?  What 
>happens to the article?  Does it just disappear in the ether of 
>cyberspace?  I notice it says something like 501 syntax error when it 
>goes, but this does not always seem to be a problem.

The 501 error is produced by Nos and is a bug. Fortunately Demon 
implement this bit of the RFC ok so the article is in fact sent.

>Also the articles that I download from various newsgroups are almost 
>never complete.  They are nearly always truncated in the middle.  I've 
>tried looking for a file called batch.txt, but I don't appear to have 
>one.

batch.txt is built by Nos. As soon as Nos terminates Oasis starts 
unbatching it and deletes it once it has done so.

This problem is usually caused by a buggy article which has already 
been downloaded. First "reindex" all groups. This invariably cures the 
problem. Sometimes it is necessary to "expire" with a zero time limit, 
which effectively removes *all* news articles but does fix the bug.


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk