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On Thu, 23 Apr 98 08:23:39 GMT, Richard Ashton wrote:

> The news sever is *very* picky leave a : off the end of a X-Rubbish:
> line or set the date to something silly or the wrong format and you
> will get a 441. 

I'm now rather out of sync with what may or may not have made it up to the 
news server and working on this problem from two machines 120 miles apart 
doesn't help. Anyway, when a POST command fails I don't get anything back 
from the server, the connection times out, eventually, and Chanx reports it 
as broken.

> It then seems to remember the article ID so that nees changing or it wont 
> accept an article after it has rejected it once.

Any sensible news server keeps a history file based on message IDs.

> SNEWS can post by mail2news or direct so often I correct the error and
> send it though post.demon.co.uk, the extra header, which the news
> machine ignores, that mail2news needs is.

I have thought about, and tried once, configuring everything as a moderated 
group and sending via mail2news. This does work for outgoing quite well but 
new incoming stuff ends up in your mail queue as it doesn't have an 
Approved: line in the header. Not a lot of use.  B-(

After spending an hour or two this afternoon double checking that none of 
the files in the ~/TCPIP/* directory tree had got minorly munged I disabled 
MRU negociation in PPP.EXE. This seems to have cured the problem, at least 
if I enable MRU negociation the POST command fails, if I disable it POST 
works. Netstat -n reports an MTU of 1524 with negociation enabled and 1500 
with it disabled. 

Now why has everything been hunky doory for over twleve months but in the 
last week or so it stops? Is there a router configured oddly somewher within 
demon producing packet loss on big packets?

Needless to say I have had nothing back from internet@demon.net, apart from 
the auto responder, after I mailed them midday Thursday with details of my 
problem. At least I can categoricaly say that nothing has changed here so 
Demon must have broken something.

(This long post better get posted or I shall be a tad pd off!)

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