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In article <946756827.5755.0.nnrp-02.9e98d142@news.demon.co.uk>, 
Ian Stirling <Inquisitor@I.am> wrote:
>Dan Glover <news@dangl.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>In article <386E0B03.E5F851A9@NOSPAM.netunix.com>, "C. Newport" 
>><crn@NOSPAM.netunix.com> wrote:

>>>nntpget has a NEWNEWS option and is fully supported as part of inn.

>>So it does!  Thanks for encouraging me to look at it again...slightly
>>ironic that this is included given the attitude of INN folk to NEWNEWS.

>It doesn't.

Work?  Have a NEWNEWS option?  Can you give a little clue as to what
"doesn't", please?

>It only does one article at a time, and at least with the version I have,
>falls over when ever it hits a long line.

I assume this still refers to nntpget: slurp stacks article requests -
or can be configured to do so - and the fix for problem with long
References: headers has been around for years.

>Also, slurp has another bug, where it'll treat 
>.\n
>as the end of an article, when it should really be
>.\r\n

>Hard to call on this one, as one way, it'll work with slightly broken
>servers, the other way it'll break on some articles.

I've not - to my knowledge - encountered any problem with this.  I'll
bear it in mind for the future if I see anything odd happening.

Dan

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