empty newgroup messages

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <cistron.yl4s9ajoft.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>,
Russ Allbery  <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:
>Miquel van Smoorenburg <list-inn-workers at news.cistron.nl> writes:
>
>> Often, I receive empty control messages by mail like this:
>
>>   Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 14:15:52 +0100
>>   From: news <news at wormhole.cistron.net>
>>   Message-Id: <200001041315.OAA25849 at wormhole.cistron.nl>
>>   To: usenet at wormhole.cistron.net
>>   Subject: newgroup oesterreich.alle.sind.ganz.lieb.zu y l.moosi at gmx.net
>>   X-Envelope-To: miquels at cistron.nl
>>   Lines: 0
>
>> .. while the control message in control.newgroup does contain the whole
>> body. Is anybody else seeing this? I can't find anything wrong in
>> bin/controlchan, the perl code to mail the controlmessage to newsmaster
>> looks fine.
>
>I haven't seen this... are you still seeing this periodically?

Every once in a while, running a snapshot of 2 or 3 weeks ago

>If so, are
>you using controlchan, or the internal control message handling?

controlchan.

Mike.
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