Autah-cs.147
net.news
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!mhtsa!harpo!utah-cs!lepreau
Tue Dec 22 16:07:45 1981
Losing Q: first lines
Either people's humor is considerably more subtle than the general level
on the net would indicate, or there is a bug in netnews or uucp.  (Or
there's some unannounced censorship going on!)  Any message which begins
with Q: appears to get that first line deleted.  It is not just a
leading 'Q', because 'Q.  ' has gotten thru.  I suspect ihnss or harpo,
as these are the only sites which the problem messages' routes all have
in common.  (Note that harpo is our gateway, so of course they are in
every path.)  From watarts!mab's article (watarts.1027), they too are
seeing the problem, so it's not utah-cs, and it works in tests here on
local machines.  The following are the articles which exhibit the problem.

csin.217        ihnss.848       ihnss.894       ihnss.895       ihnss.940
nsc.110         phs.184         pur-ee.191      ucbarpa.537

We have been tantalized by far too many A:'s without the corresponding
questions!
       Jay Lepreau

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