[6959] in SIPB bug reports
Re: BUG in xrn
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Thu Aug 13 17:28:45 1998
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 17:28:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: v_shiv@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199808132119.RAA08333@m56-129-29.mit.edu>
Your diagnosis is right. Cutting-and-pasting from amu@mit.edu's
answer to the question:
>xrn is probably confused by the presence of a (presumably
>unsubscribed) group with a really long name like
>
>alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt.alt
>
>in your .newsrc. If you remove the line mentioning it and either
>always start xrn with the option "+fullNewsrc" or add the line
>
> XRn*fullNewsrc: false
>
>to your .Xresources, that problem should probably go away.
>
>--
>Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
Hope this helps,
Jacob Morzinski
