[leafnode-list] Mass murder

[tmcd@xxxxxxxx]

I'm using leafnode 1.9.2.  My current config file is

    server = news2.jump.net
    expire = 100
    hostname = jump.net
    maxage = 100
    timeout_short = 20
    timeout_long = 2
    create_all_links = 1
    debugmode = 1
    maxbytes = 50000

fetch seems to kill everything it wants to fetch.  The news.=info
syslogd file I set up has

Sep 19 23:35:26 tmcd fetch[5314]: comp.lang.perl.moderated: will fetch 6 articles
Sep 19 23:35:26 tmcd fetch[5314]: Killed article 3458 (65809 > maxbytes)
Sep 19 23:35:26 tmcd fetch[5314]: Killed article 3459 (65809 > maxbytes)
Sep 19 23:35:26 tmcd fetch[5314]: Killed article 3460 (65809 > maxbytes)
Sep 19 23:35:26 tmcd fetch[5314]: Killed article 3461 (65809 > maxbytes)
Sep 19 23:35:26 tmcd fetch[5314]: Killed article 3462 (65809 > maxbytes)
Sep 19 23:35:26 tmcd fetch[5314]: Killed article 3463 (65809 > maxbytes)
Sep 19 23:35:26 tmcd fetch[5314]: comp.lang.perl.moderated: 0 articles fetched (to 104), 6 killed

I doubt that every article just happens to have 65809 bytes!  I went
to my ISP, but the "wc" sizes of each article is 1599, 1852, 3426, ...

My news.=debug syslogd file looks like

Sep 19 23:42:54 tmcd fetch[5457]: 1.9.2: verbosity level is 2
Sep 19 23:42:54 tmcd fetch[5457]: config: debugmode is 1
Sep 19 23:42:54 tmcd fetch[5457]: config: postings have max. 50000 bytes
Sep 19 23:42:54 tmcd fetch[5457]: Last LIST ACTIVE done 5700892 seconds ago: NEWGROUPS 
Sep 19 23:42:55 tmcd fetch[5457]: <200 news-feeds.jump.net InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.2.1 25-Aug-1999 ready (posting ok). 
Sep 19 23:42:55 tmcd fetch[5457]: >MODE READER^M 
Sep 19 23:42:55 tmcd fetch[5457]: <200 news-feeds.jump.net InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.2.1 25-Aug-1999 ready (posting ok). 
Sep 19 23:42:55 tmcd fetch[5457]: >NEWGROUPS 990920 043500 GMT^M 
Sep 19 23:42:56 tmcd fetch[5457]: <503 Cannot open newsgroup date file. 

(Any suggestions as to that?
    Getting new newsgroups from news2.jump.net
    Reading new newsgroups failed.
)

Sep 19 23:42:56 tmcd fetch[5457]: >GROUP comp.lang.perl.moderated^M 
Sep 19 23:42:56 tmcd fetch[5457]: <211 134 3330 3463 comp.lang.perl.moderated 
Sep 19 23:42:56 tmcd fetch[5457]: >XHDR Message-ID 3330-3463^M 
Sep 19 23:42:59 tmcd fetch[5457]: <221 Message-ID fields follow 
Sep 19 23:42:59 tmcd fetch[5457]: <3359 <37D722E4.EDE944EA@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Sep 19 23:42:59 tmcd fetch[5457]: <3360 <7r7671$44l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
[snip]
Sep 19 23:42:59 tmcd fetch[5457]: <3462 <7qkstj$gr9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Sep 19 23:42:59 tmcd fetch[5457]: <3463 <7qkstj$gr9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Sep 19 23:42:59 tmcd fetch[5457]: <. 
Sep 19 23:42:59 tmcd fetch[5457]: >XHDR Bytes 3330-3463^M 
Sep 19 23:43:00 tmcd fetch[5457]: <221 Bytes fields follow 
Sep 19 23:43:00 tmcd fetch[5457]: <3359 4106 
Sep 19 23:43:00 tmcd fetch[5457]: <3360 1832 
Sep 19 23:43:00 tmcd fetch[5457]: <3361 978 
[snip]
Sep 19 23:43:00 tmcd fetch[5457]: <3462 65809 
Sep 19 23:43:00 tmcd fetch[5457]: <3463 65809 
Sep 19 23:43:00 tmcd fetch[5457]: <. 
Sep 19 23:43:00 tmcd fetch[5457]: >GROUP alt.fan.cecil-adams^M 
..

Now, my ISP's news server does appear to be wedged mightily at the
moment.  It's reporting that all recent articles have subject line
[1] ***NEED,PICS-FOR.XXX,AMATEUR
even in alt.fan.cecil-adams and comp.std.c++, and trn shows 53 unread
articles in a newsgroup and when entered says there's -1.  So this
could be a transient problem, I suppose.

Any suggestions?

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