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From: scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,news.groups
Subject: Re: Someone is recycling old news.
Message-ID: <3834@itivax.iti.org>
Date: 20 Sep 89 13:00:36 GMT
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Organization: Industrial Technology Institute, Ann Arbor, MI.
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story@can503.UUCP (Robert Story) writes:

>This is the THIRD time I have received this message.  A lot of articles from 
>the beginning of September seem to reappear every few days.  My cron runs 
>'expire -e 10 -E 21 -i', is this the problem?  Does anyone have any idea of 
>what's happening?

If you're really running -E21 on September 18 and seeing an article
from early September repeated several times, then your news software is
broke or your history file is corrupted.

As for the big loop of stuff with dates in early August, the system that
did it has been tracked down independantly by numerous folks and has
fixed their problem.
-- 
Steve Simmons		          scs@vax3.iti.org
Industrial Technology Institute     Ann Arbor, MI.
"Velveeta -- the Spam of Cheeses!" -- Uncle Bonsai