Re: nnspool: Reference header too long (article not posted)

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

David S Goldberg <dsg@mitre.org> writes:

> As others have already pointed out, that message appears to be coming
> from your news software, not gnus itself.  It seems the easiest thing
> would be to pare down the references header when you edit your message.
> You could probably write a hook to do so, or maybe modify/advise
> message-shorten-references with a smaller limit.  Or get better news
> software.

If the problem is that the References header is over 1024 characters on a
single line, you definitely don't want "better" news software where better
is defined as news software that will post that, since your article would
end up getting dropped at other sites.

A better solution would be to set message-cater-to-broken-inn to nil so
that Gnus will fold the References header.  Anyone running that old of a
version of INN should upgrade anyway.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>