On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 10:11:07PM +0100, Nick Leverton wrote: > This now reminds me of some investigations I did a few years back into a > similar issue in inn's nntpget. I found that a small number of clients > did not trim References headers when they grew past 1024 bytes, or perhaps > trimmed before appending the new message-id rather than afterwards. > > Regardless, the number of articles with References headers > 1024 > was non-zero, but few had them very much longer than that as most of > these lengthy subthreads involved at least one person with a non-broken > newsreader. > > I therefore think the attached patch should be more than adequate. > Tested here and solves the problem on all the newsgroups I'm subscribed > to that have long enough threads to cause this issue.
Thanks for the patch - it's clearly a hack, but I think a reasonable one. I'm applying it now. (Incidentally, if you're an umrat do you know my wife Kirsten?) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
