Re: Download headers in a few newsgroups freeze tin?

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:27:02AM -0800, Phillip Pi wrote:
> I emailed the file to [email protected].

the message was "a bit" large so it wan't resend to all the
receipients, but I have my copy (if anyone is interrested I can
resend it).

> It looks like it has funky characters in there.

the tail looks strange (the rest seems to be ok):

| GROUP alt.games.battlefield1942
| 211 52990 13779 66768 alt.games.battlefield1942
| XOVER -
| 224 xover information follows
| 13779	Re: AGB Game	"STIG" <[email protected]>	Sun, 22 Jun 2003 17:01:57 GMT	<[email protected]>	<[email protected]>	1437	16	Xref: intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com alt.games.battlefield1942:13779
| [..output...]
| 35201	Flying The Choppers	"Buckshot" <Jasonc87(at)comcast(dot)net>	Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:19:19 -0500	<[email protected]>		1759	21	Xref: intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com alt.games.battlefield1942:35201
| 35202	Re: Auto-Download Custom Maps ?	"¤    Phil C" <[email protected]>	Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:24:18 -0500	<[email protected]>	<[email protected]> <[email protected]>	2029	30	Xref: intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com alt.games.battlefield1942:35202
| 35203	Re: AGB Stats Site not working?	Lansenerd <lansenerd@NO_SPAM_hotmail.com>	Tue, 28 Oct 2003 02:35:40 +0100	<[email protected]>	<[email protected]>	1327	11	Xref: intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com alt.games.battlefield1942:35203
| 35204	Re: New DC Map: Occupied Territories	Flycutter® <[email protected]>	Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:40:32 -0500	<[email protected]>	<bnk39n$11mi
| Connection closed by foreign host.

the record number 35204 is incomplete (either cause it contains junk
on the server and the server can't read more of it (e.g. it contains
a NULL-byte or something like that) or the connection was closed for some
reason (shouldn't happen in that stage)) and right afterwards the
connection is closed without the end of records indicator (single "."
on a line). tin hangs there and waits for the rest of the record not
noticing that the connection is closed. dunno if we can (easily) deal
with the problem. it looks like a server-side error, so you might
also ask the newsadmin to rebuild the overview-database for the related
group (but then we loose our debug case ,-).

urs
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