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From: elliot@alfred.UUCP (Elliot Dierksen)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Who's Messing With The Usenet ?
Summary: keep longer history to nix dups
Keywords: article, duplication, monkey business
Message-ID: <372@alfred.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 89 23:01:51 GMT
References: <2056@avsd.UUCP> <14682@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Organization: Semi-private 3B1 - Orlando, FL
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If you don't want to see dups, keep your history files longer. I expire all
the news on my system within 3 days. mainly because of disk space
restrictions. I keep 30 days history though which only takes up 300-500
blocks. I also get some redundant information because I get half of my feed
from one system and half from another and I NEVER see duplicate articles.
Even if someone re-releases an article to the net, if it is still in your
history file it will get shipped to the bit bucket. I use the following
command to purge news on my system (2.11 B) expire -e 3 -E 30. Try that and
I doubt anyone will have dups again!!

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Elliot Dierksen                 UUCP: {peora,ucf-cs,uunet}!tarpit!alfred!elliot

"You can only be you once, but you can be immature forever!"