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From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Who's Messing With The Usenet ?
Keywords: article, duplication, monkey business
Message-ID: <2899@splut.conmicro.com>
Date: 18 Sep 89 13:53:48 GMT
References: <2056@avsd.UUCP> <1989Sep16.061700.4572@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> <1989Sep17.181534.16677@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <1989Sep18.041601.15352@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard)
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
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In article <1989Sep18.041601.15352@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>But does it drop the message id from history while keeping/spooling the
>article? That was the behavior that I thought was unlikely... just running
>out of history file space seems perfectly reasonable, but reacting to
>a failure to append to the history file by keeping the article sounds
>somewhat strange...

That has happened here before. If I forget to patch the default ulimit
on this SysV.2 system when putting up a new kernel, I usually discover
the problem by seeing a bunch of duplicated articles.

Yes, it's strange, but that's how it happens...BTW, this is on B news
2.11.14.

-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL   | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jay@splut.conmicro.com       (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity.
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