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From: bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: status comp.sys.sun
Summary: Look at the dates *in* the articles
Keywords: comp sys sun status
Message-ID: <904@borabora.omni.com>
Date: 19 Sep 89 20:39:23 GMT
References: <1555@ndmath.UUCP> <1125@svx.SV.DG.COM> <887@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Organization: OMNI Solutions, Mountain View, CA
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In article <887@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller) writes:
> I hate to interject facts into this discussion, but...
> $ ls -lt /usr/spool/news/comp/sys/sun | head -5
> total 124
> -rw-rw-rw-   1 news     news        5706 Sep 19 08:19 1560
> -rw-rw-rw-   1 news     news        2163 Sep 19 08:17 1559
> -rw-rw-rw-   1 news     news        1522 Sep 19 08:17 1558
> -rw-rw-rw-   1 news     news        1715 Sep 19 08:15 1557
> $ date
> Tue Sep 19 08:42:04 PDT 1989
> 
> Looks more like a case of network partitioning to me...

I'm having a little trouble deciphering what "facts" Scott is trying to
"interject" here.  I don't know what he means by "network partitioning".
I assume he's saying "articles are appearing in comp.sys.sun".

Scott, I suggest you look at the "Date:" fields of the articles, rather
than the dates they arrived on your system.  The most recent article to
arrive here at omni.com is:

-rw-rw-r--  1 news         3021 Sep 19 13:11 1365

i.e., it arrived less than half an hour ago.  But its header reads:

Path: koosh!sgi!decwrl!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request
From: davy@riacs.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Weird disk problems - Xylogics 753/Fuji M2382
Keywords: Hardware
Message-ID: <1247@brazos.Rice.edu>
Date: 31 Aug 89 16:09:34 GMT
      ^^^^^^^^^--------------------------------look!
Sender: root@rice.edu
Organization: Sun-Spots
Lines: 52
Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 110, message 11 of 11

showing that it took nineteen (19) days to get here.  Oh, by the way,
the originator's site, riacs.edu, is in the same town as my site.

It is the delay imposed by the moderator to which I object.

Scott, you really should have typed

  % ls -t | head -5 | xargs grep ^Date:
  1365:Date: 31 Aug 89 16:09:34 GMT
  1364:Date: 31 Aug 89 05:21:00 GMT
  1363:Date: 31 Aug 89 13:17:32 GMT
  1362:Date: 31 Aug 89 18:19:11 GMT
  1361:Date: 31 Aug 89 13:50:17 GMT
  %

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