[Pan-users] 0.11.94 - Unable to properly decode certain posts...

[Wolf J . Flywheel]

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Hi...

        First of all, is it more appropriate to report such things here, or 
via bugzilla?  I feel I should post here anyway, as somebody may want 
to try confirming it... (and yes, I'm going to upgrade to 0.12, 
probably today, but I saw nothing in the changelog about decoding 
fixes, so...).

        Anyway, there are certain binary postings lately that have come down 
with *all* files corrupt.  (No complaints from other people in the 
newsgroup, either, which makes me suspicious!)  An example of this is 
found in alt.binaries.multimedia.anime, where all files from the chain 
beginning, "ATTN: shezy: Scryed ep 21 [APX] (can't help with 24, am 
still looking..." (posted by Zeero) are unusable.  All Pxx files have 
"Control hash mismatch"; all RAR files have CRC errors and the 
extraction process ends with a "Seek error".
        Another example was in alt.binaries.multimedia.anime.repost, a recent 
(but not recent enough that the articles are still on my server, sadly) 
posting of "Those Who Hunt Elves episode 2" (by Xevild) [heh, sounds 
like some kind of infernal system service!] where all Pxx files 
reported control hash mismatch, and all RAR parts refused to extract 
because of bad CRCs.

        Developers, if it helps you, Xevild has posted into alt.binaries.test 
for me (all the articles with "Attn: SQQ" in the subject), and the 
parts I grabbed from that post exhibit the same behavior.  I have saved 
all articles for one segment, in case you need them for analysis.  
Headers from one such article:

From: XevilD <address@hidden>
Subject: Attn: SQQ - Those Who Hunt Elves Ep02 - Session 02 - (Repack) 
- - [02/14] Those Who Hunt Elves - 02 - An Invincible Team Is Formed 
[rg.part12.rar (04/17)
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.test
User-Agent: NewsPro/3.3.0
Lines: 10001
Message-ID: <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:04:12 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.132.239.185
X-Complaints-To: address@hidden
X-Trace: amsnews03.chello.com 1024502652 24.132.239.185 (Wed, 19 Jun 
2002 18:04:12 MET DST)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 18:04:12 MET DST
Organization: chello broadband
Path: 
news3.nntpserver.com!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!cox.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!proxad.net!proxad.net!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2.euro.net!news-x2.support.nl!newshub1.nl.home.com!news.nl.home.com!amsnews01.chello.com!amsnews03.chello.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
Xref: 127.0.0.1 alt.binaries.test:6695713

        Please let me know what else I might do to help you run this down.  :)

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