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INN statistics: What is "Including strange strings"

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From: mo01@posteo.de (Marco Moock)
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Subject: INN statistics: What is "Including strange strings"
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:31:48 +0200
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by: Marco Moock - Tue, 22 Aug 2023 16:31 UTC

Hello!

INN creates statistics and one of them are servers that include strange
strings.
https://www.eternal-september.org/stats/news-notice.2023.08.21-04.00.01.html#innd_misc_stat

Which strings are "strange"?

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by: Ray Banana - Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:14 UTC

Thus spake Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de>
> Which strings are "strange"?

Strings that do not conform to the format specified
in the relevant RFCs such as:

Article accepted but includes LF without CR(1)
Article accepted but includes CR without LF(1)

As for individual.net's prominent role in this report, please refer to
the thread with

Subject: [individual] Gefaltete Headerzeilen mit LF?

starting with M-ID <20230810th110257@o15.ybtra.de>

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computers / news.software.nntp / INN statistics: What is "Including strange strings"

Subject	Author
INN statistics: What is "Including strange strings"	Marco Moock
Re: INN statistics: What is "Including strange strings"	Ray Banana