It's not so much that I'm concerned over losing articles. Rather, it's that newshound dies when it bumps into such a thing. Is there some method build into the tools that allows one to filter out absurdly crossposted articles? Thanks, -Brian On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, William Burrow wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 03:12:45PM -0500, BMM wrote: > > I'm finding that newshound dies with a "segmentation fault" or "memory > > fault" when it hits an article which has a "Newsgroups:" line greater than > > 1024 characters. Changing all instances of 1024 to 2048 in newshound.c > > seems to have gotten around the articles that were giving me trouble, but > > I'm guessing a 2048 character line will still break things. Is newshound > > still being maintained by someone? > > I know that some newsgroup names are getting long these days, but 1K > long Newsgroups: lines are probably a sign of velveeta, if not spam, > neither of which is desirable. Perhaps some ad junkies or flamers on > your system will miss these articles, but IMHO delete these articles with > extreme prejudice and don't lose any sleep over them. > > -- > William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada > Your education begins where what is called your education is over. >
