Overview problem

[Russ Allbery]

Sorry about the delay in responding.

Newsmaster Tiscali <newsmaster at de.tiscali.com> writes:

> today one of our customers complained, that he cannot access a certain
> newsgroup (non-binary).

> So, I subscribed to the group and was unable to access. I tried with TIN
> and Outlook Express.

> news.notice says:
> Aug  6 04:43:18 ulysses expireover[57025]: buffindexed: could not open overview for 'de.alt.folklore.computer'
> Aug  6 11:12:08 ulysses nnrpd[58880]: host.domain group de.alt.folklore.usenet 0

This says that the reader successfully accessed that group but didn't read
any articles in it.  What shows up in the news reader?  I'm not sure what
"unable to access" means.

> kasmodiah:~ $ telnet news.tiscali.de nntp
> Trying 195.185.185.36...
> Connected to news.tiscali.de.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 200 news.tiscali.de InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.3.5 ready (posting ok).
> group de.alt.folklore.computer
> 211 2161 2 2166 de.alt.folklore.computer
> quit
> 205 .

This sure looks fine so far.  I wonder what would happen if you tried
reading one of those messages with ARTICLE, or retrieving overview
information with XOVER.

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