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From: hoyt@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Sir Hoyt)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Who's Messing With The Usenet ?
Keywords: article, duplication, monkey business
Message-ID: <1989Sep17.181534.16677@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 17 Sep 89 18:15:34 GMT
References: <2056@avsd.UUCP> <1989Sep16.061700.4572@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: hoyt@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Sir Hoyt)
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In article <1989Sep16.061700.4572@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>the history file can't be appended to (disk full, maybe?). In that case,
>I could imagine news dropping the Message-ID on the floor, then accepting
>the same id later. Doesn't seem likely to me (well, *I'D* check for it
>when writing a news :-) ), but maybe...

	It's happend here at polyslo before.  Expire on B news makes a copy of
	the history file before processing.  Our history file is
	about 4Meg, which makes 8Meg, and when you have ~10Meg free....

	Another problem we had was that we were deleteing old Message-ID 
	form the history file too sone.  We now keep them for 30 days,
	and have not had a problem since.


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