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In article <816033810_OASIS_@swampdog.demon.co.uk>, guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk
(Guy Harrison) wrote:
> In article <5936_pbaker@mettav.demon.co.uk>
>  pbaker@mettav.demon.co.uk (Paul Baker) said:-
>>It works 1001f the time now..
>          ^^^^^
>Ah! - the newsgroup mutation I've been waffling on about. Was this 
>originally:
>It works 100% of the time now..
>Anyone else experiencing this?

Yes, I've seen it a few times.  I'm not sure where the articles are getting
corrupted, but I have an idea what's causing it: somewhere along the line is
a C program with a bug (or a program compiled with a bugged compiler written
in C).  What's taking place is something like
    fprintf(fp,line)          /* very bad */
instead of
    fprintf(fp,"%s",line)     /* okay */

This can't be a problem at the Demon end - they'd surely have noticed by
now.  It's not at the recipient's end - I've seen the problem using both
NOS/SNEWS on the ST and Free Agent on the PC.  And crucially, Paul Baker's
article arrived corrupted and Guy Harrison's arrived intact, although they
both used percentage signs.  The problem must lie at the sender's end -
either with the news-posting software used (easily checked by examining the
files in your spool directory before connecting) or in one or more versions
of NOS itself.

Stephen
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