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From: freak@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (c.e.malloy..iii)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Missing pieces are becoming common
Message-ID: <1916@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Jul 89 19:43:41 GMT
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Reply-To: freak@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (c.e.malloy..iii)
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> After several large postings many netters seemed to have missed the
> same part of each of several postings: nethack part 4, omega support
> files part 1, space flight simulator part 5. The large number of
> netters that missed these leads me to believe that there is a problem
> somewhere in the system. Could you Rahul, or anyone else knowledgeable
> enough check this out?
>
> In the meantime, could these particular missing pieces be reposted? I
> realize that we don't always want to repost every item that was
> missed by somebody.  However, these in particular seemed to have
> been missed by many.

Funny, I have just sent mail to the administrator of our server about
this very thing.  Maby Rahul can shead more light on it.  Here what I
sent.

Because I was on vacation, I had to save a large number of postings
from comp.binaries.ibm.pc in the last few days.  Of the things that
I saved, four were reposts.  They are; v04i017, v04i024, v04i030,
and v04i042.  There are also two files missing.  They are: v04i048
and v04i060.  The moderator posts at specific times according to the
"Date:" field in the header of the postings.  It usually starts at
00:00 and then continues every 2 hours until it's done.  After I
had saved all of the files on my home system, I used the "Date"
field to "touch" each of the files.  That is when I noticed that
ALL of the reposts and the two missing files should have a "Date"
field of "08:00:00 GMT"  I spoke with Doug Price and he suggested
that I send mail to you.  So... could you please look into this?
Is it possible that other groups are effected?

Clancy Malloy
att!ihlpf!cem