Hi.

I'm trying to setup an email feed of a couple of large Usenet news groups. Articles seem to be flowing happily, although I'm getting a dozen or so exceptions each day. It may be related to the number of aricles being retrieved, as I get these exceptions everytime gate_news is run until I perform a catchup on the news group. I was also getting the exceptions much more often until I started running gate_news every 60 seconds instead of once every five minutes.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

My client is a NetBSD box running Python 2.1.1 and Mailman 2.0.6. The upstream news server is a DNews server, or a NetCache (which talks to the same DNews server) - same problem with both.

On Thursday, November 1, 2001, at 06:14 PM, Cron Daemon wrote:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 222, in ? main() File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 203, in main process_lists(lock) File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 179, in process_lists poll_newsgroup(mlist, conn, start, last+1, glock) File "/home/mailman/cron/gate_news", line 104, in poll_newsgroup body = conn.body(num)[3] File "/home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 346, in body return self.artcmd('BODY ' + id) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 322, in artcmd resp, list = self.longcmd(line) File "/home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 215, in longcmd return self.getlongresp() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 194, in getlongresp resp = self.getresp() File "/home/mailman/Mailman/pythonlib/nntplib.py", line 188, in getresp raise NNTPProtocolError(resp) Mailman.pythonlib.nntplib.NNTPProtocolError: .

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