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Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:

> Argh, it somehow kills my local newsserver. (He rejects the articles
> with this header saying something like this: (it's in German, so I've
> got to translate) "The list index is bigger than the maximum (-1)".
> 
> I get the error with
> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.4 (Academic Rigor, i586-pc-win32)

Huh?  I can't see anything wrong with the line when I look at the
USEFOR article EBNF.  Does it complain if you replace "i586-pc-win32"
with "xxxxxxxxxxxxx"?  Maybe it is the line width?

Do you have source code to the news server?  Maybe you can have a look
to see what the error really means.