Re: Strange problem when posting via news.gmane.org

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 02:45:43PM +0100, Urs Jan=DFen wrote:
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> thuderbird sends a date header whereas tin does not (Date is arequired
> header, but may be left out from the client. in that case the server mu=
st
> add it). Maybe that's the problem. But I guess the problem is on the
> moderators side so the best ist to ask him what's going wrong any why.
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Hmm, the 'moderator' isn't really interested in making the newsgroup
access work.  I'm the only user with a problem.  However I can always
ask.


> there is no easy way to tell tin to send the Date header on its own, bu=
t it
> can be achieved via the attributes machanism (see tin(5)) with someting
> like the following in ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/attributes (gnu-date
> assumed):
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> scope=3Dgmane.org.clubs.dba.*
> x_headers=3D!LC_MESSAGES=3DC date -u +"Date: %%d %%b %%Y %%T %%Z"
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> > I'm pretty certain the problem is that the DBA site isn't handling th=
e
> > LF only line endings from tin.
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> tin uses \r\n but only shows \n in the logs (to make things more readab=
le).
> see nntplib.c:put_server():
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Oh, OK, I'm barking up the wrong tree then.  Ignore my last message! :-)

I'll try the date thing (I can do it manually for starters I suppose).

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Chris Green