Re: NEWNEWS error

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From: Guy Harrison
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 00:00

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 In article <817553602.13799@paul.demon.co.uk>
  paul@demon.net (Paul Civati) said:-

>In article <817504358_OASIS_@swampdog.demon.co.uk>,
>        guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk (Guy Harrison) writes:

>>501 bad date demon.ip.support.atari demon.announce demon.ans p <blah>
                                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^

>This sounds to me like a corrupted NNTP.DAT, in that it might have 
>passed a corrupted date as the part of the command to the news server, 
>hence the error.

That's what had me stumped - the date was ok. Then I noticed 
"demon.ans p". When I looked at NNTP.DAT the "demon.answers" line had 
had "wer" corrupted with silly symbols. A quick excursion with an 
editor soon put it right.


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk

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From: guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk (Guy Harrison)
Subject: Re: NEWNEWS error
Date: 1995/11/28
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