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In article <840558665snz@dsl.co.uk>, Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
<bhk@dsl.co.uk> writes

>> I've been using Alex Chapman's NEWNEWS Rexx script to fetch news, but a
>> recent development, presumably at Demon's end, has caused it to break
>> when it gets two consecutive "400 Server Busy" responses.
>> 
>> A quick Kermit session suggests that Demon's news server now sends
>> 
>>     400 server busy<CR><LF><NULL>
>> 
>> (note the trailing NULL).

As a confirmation: I noticed this too and reported it. It may have been
there some time since "server busy" has been rare until recently.

>But should you need to make this fix: after all, isn't the spurious NUL
>(ASCII control characters' names are only two or three letters, not four)
>unwanted and also likely to confuse other implementations?
>
>(For this reason, I've cross-posted to d.i.developers.)

being tolerant of what you receive is always a Good Thing.

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