[2613] in SIPB bug reports
xrn bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Mar 17 14:03:04 1992
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 14:01:53 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: kkkken@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: starflt@Athena.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: kkkken@Athena.MIT.EDU's message of Tue, 17 Mar 92 12:35:48 -0500 <9203171735.AA08513@gevalt.MIT.EDU>
From: kkkken@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 92 12:35:48 -0500
>> By the way, in this particular case "usenet" probably would have been
>> a better address to write to than "bug-sipb". The problem was not a
>> bug, it was a bogus newsgroup on the news server, and the news
>> administrators who get the "usenet" list are better equipped to deal
>> with things like that.
So then, it's correct behavior for xrn to produce an unreadable newsrc
file because of a group with a colon in the name?
The answer to this question is not at all clear. Xrn's behavior was
consistent with the newsgroup list it received from the NNTP server.
Therefore, it could justifiably be argued that the fault is in the
news server's willingness to accept a newsgroup name with a ':' in it.
I suspect that the problem does not occur frequently enough for anyone
to expend a significant amount of effort fixing it.
BTW, I've removed cfyi from the CC list on this message.
jik
