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 In article <822091278_OASIS_@pwomar.demon.co.uk>
  Paul@pwomar.demon.co.uk (Paul Womar) said:-

> In article <822011038_OASIS_@swampdog.demon.co.uk>
>  guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk (Guy Harrison) said:-
>
>>
>>I believe someone wanted to know what the 436 news posting response 
>>means: "news not posted - try again later". A bit like the 400 busy 
>>error but for the opposite direction.
>>
>>The other common one is 501 which is a complaint about syntax - ignore 
>>it.
>
>Are you sure that this is what it means? I thought that it was just 
>informing me that it had been posted as I get it with EVERY single 
>article I post, what exactly is wrong??? Does in need a Proc: & Endp 
>;-)

I get it as well. Unless the following RFC has been superceeded then 
something is amiss.

From RFC 977 ...

"The first digit of the response broadly indicates the success, 
failure or progress of the previous command".

1xx	Informative message.
2xx	Command ok.
3xx	Command ok so far - send the rest of it.
4xx	Command was correct but not performed for some reason.
5xx	Command unimplemented or incorrect, or a serious program error 
	occurred.

Second digit ...

x0x	Connection, setup and miscellaneous messages.
x1x	Newsgroup selection
x2x	Article selection
x3x	Distribution functions
x4x	Posting
x8x	Nonstandard implementation
x9x	Debugging output.

and on page 8 it specifically says

501	Command syntax error.

A wild guess (assuming the demon end is right) - perhaps, NOS 
correctly sends the article but immediately after this sends some 
garbage? I don't pretend to understand a fraction of what I read in 
the RFC's so maybe the explanation is obvious?


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk