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On Sunday, in article <nospam-1509022333330001@192.168.0.1>
     nospam@kenner.demon.co.uk "No Spam Today" wrote:

> In article <B9AA96DE966813E78F@10.0.0.1>, Dave@zizek.demon.co.uk (Dave Wilson)
>  wrote:

> > I do use MT NewsWatcher for some online reading. On Saturday (and I think
> > Friday evening) I had a spate of reported disconnects followed by reading
> > as normal.
> > There was a blight of them when opening a (large and busy) new newsgroup
> > (is that how you'd term it) from my subscribed list ie after the number of
> > articles had been obtained - MT would start to get the headers and then
> > report a disconnection.
> 
> this is very similar to the behaviour I am seeing. It is ongoing
> and disabling.
> 
> The results of XPAT searches in these busy groups are also full of
> garbage - i.e.  many more articles are reported as matching the
> subject line than actually should match.
> 
> something seems to have been corrupted on the news server.

I wonder if it might be unexpected characters, massively over-long
lines or similar in the server output?  Can anyone provide a newsgroup
name with NNTP commands etc. which cause these apparent disconnections?
(Or indeed the group and XPAT command mentioned above which produces
apparently bogus output?)

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