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[John Newman]

> Nothing to be warried about from those entries.  I'd
> trace what are issued by readers and how this comes.
> This can be enabled by 'ctlinnd trace n y', and sys-
> logged to news debug level.

Well I think I've figured out what was causing these.  When clients
issue "ARTICLE <MSG-ID>" as opposed to "ARTICLE <number>" then
these entries were generated.  Now something even more disturbing
happens.  

news2# nnrpd
200 news2 InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.3.0 ready (posting ok).
group news.software.nntp
211 244 82231 82475 news.software.nntp
head 82475
221 82475 <meowbot-AutoPost-71562-30698734-100000 at netscum.dQ> head
Path: news2!news-feeds.jump.net!uunet!dfw.uu.net!chi.uu.net!nyc.uu.net!newsfeed.mathworks.com!news.tele.dk!Free-PR0N.NetScum.DK.POSTED!vax.chrillesen.dk!barry
From: Anonymous Coward <anonymous at Pedantic.NewsBastards.Org>
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Please help, crosspost error
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 00:59:49 +0100
Organization: Binging Beerbellied Barry Bouwsma's Beerserver
Lines: 10
Message-ID: <meowbot-AutoPost-71562-30698734-100000 at netscum.dQ>
References: <3A06C194.5A63C648 at muskingum.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 3167c9bec77aad169c717ee8739c7963.netscum.dk
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
X-Trace: freebeer.netscum.dk 973555190 a42518c57111f03c57efd45f0633aa55
X-Complaints-To: Department of Beer <bitbucket at news.inet.tele.dk>
X-Sender: barry at vax.chrillesen.dk
In-Reply-To: <3A06C194.5A63C648 at muskingum.edu>
Xref: news2 news.software.nntp:82475
.
article <meowbot-AutoPost-71562-30698734-100000 at netscum.dQ>
Segmentation Fault


This seg fault happens consistently.  

Should I try upgrading to the latest stable snapshot? 

--
John