Posting strangeness

Sn!pe

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Apr 13, 2023, 8:31:15 AM4/13/23

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When posting, I'm getting a long, complicated message about
something is deprecated. (regrettably I can't C&P the error
message in this ancient reader.)

The article is posted OK but is not cleared from my Outbox.

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Marco Moock

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Apr 13, 2023, 8:46:58 AM4/13/23

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Am 13.04.2023 schrieb snip...@gmail.com (Sn!pe):

> When posting, I'm getting a long, complicated message about
> something is deprecated. (regrettably I can't C&P the error
> message in this ancient reader.)
>
> The article is posted OK but is not cleared from my Outbox.

I also have that.

Ray Banana

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Apr 13, 2023, 9:21:43 AM4/13/23

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* Sn!pe wrote:
> When posting, I'm getting a long, complicated message about
> something is deprecated. (regrettably I can't C&P the error
> message in this ancient reader.)
>
> The article is posted OK but is not cleared from my Outbox.
>

Could it be "experimental" rather than "deprecated"?

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Ray Banana

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Apr 13, 2023, 9:30:52 AM4/13/23

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* Sn!pe wrote:
> When posting, I'm getting a long, complicated message about
> something is deprecated. (regrettably I can't C&P the error
> message in this ancient reader.)
>
> The article is posted OK but is not cleared from my Outbox.
>

Ray Banana

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Apr 13, 2023, 9:46:20 AM4/13/23

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* Ray Banana wrote:
> * Sn!pe wrote:
>> When posting, I'm getting a long, complicated message about
>> something is deprecated. (regrettably I can't C&P the error
>> message in this ancient reader.)
>>
>> The article is posted OK but is not cleared from my Outbox.
>>
>
> Could it be "experimental" rather than "deprecated"?
>

No, it's really "deprecated".

I'm working on this.

Sn!pe

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Apr 13, 2023, 9:59:50 AM4/13/23

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Ray Banana <ray...@raybanana.net> wrote:

> * Ray Banana wrote:
> > * Sn!pe wrote:
> >> When posting, I'm getting a long, complicated message about
> >> something is deprecated. (regrettably I can't C&P the error
> >> message in this ancient reader.)
> >>
> >> The article is posted OK but is not cleared from my Outbox.
> >>
> >
> > Could it be "experimental" rather than "deprecated"?
> >
>
> No, it's really "deprecated".
>
> I'm working on this.
>

Better now, thanks, Ray.

Ray Banana

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Apr 13, 2023, 10:08:48 AM4/13/23

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* Sn!pe wrote:
>
> Better now, thanks, Ray.
>

Much better. This is the full message:

WARNING: The key derivation method "opensslv1" is deprecated. Using -pbkdf=>'pbkdf2' would be better.
Pass -nodeprecate=>1 to inhibit this message.
at /usr/local/newsservers/lib/NNRPDFilter.pm line 232.

The funny thing is that this has been working for 15 years without a hitch.
The latest version of the Perl Crypt-CBC module has now marked this option
as deprecated, but still uses it as the default and issues a warning for it.

Embedded Perl modules, however, are not supposed to write anything to STDOUT
that is not part of the NNTP protocol, because that confuses newsreaders.

I realize that this doesn't mean much to you, but I still wanted to let you know ;-)

Sn!pe

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Apr 13, 2023, 10:35:43 AM4/13/23

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Thanks again, Ray; it's all magic to me, as I'm sure you realise. ≈:o)

Adam H. Kerman

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Apr 13, 2023, 11:21:51 AM4/13/23

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I appreciate this explanation because it wasn't clear to me that it wasn't
on my end.

Don Spam's Reckless Son

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Apr 13, 2023, 12:47:06 PM4/13/23

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I had a beginners problem with Perl around 25 years ago and subscribed
to the Perl Newsgroup so I could post a question. Luckily I looked at
the recent messages before posting, there was an absolute flame war
going on at the time. In the end I found my answer somewhere else and
eventually unsubscribed without having raised my head over the parapet
(the flame war had intensified).
Once I had my module working I abandoned the language and never went back.