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From: ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz)
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Subject: Re: More duplicates from 19 October
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Date: 13 Nov 89 00:07:42 GMT
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In-reply-to: tale@pawl.rpi.edu's message of 12 Nov 89 22:10:00 GMT


   From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
   Date: 12 Nov 89 22:10:00 GMT

   We have duplicates coming in today dated 19 Oct.  The sites in
   common in the paths:

   ...!think!mintaka!oliveb!pyramid!decwrl!...

I'll bet the problem is oliveb->mintaka.  mintaka has been down for the
past two weeks with disk problems, and I just brought it back from the
dead last night (running C News instead of B News 3.0).

I suspect that mintaka's other feeds
	a) are running the nntpsend script
	   written in Perl, which tends to trash batch files for sites
	   that don't respond, or
	b) don't keep a full month's worth of net news.

Given the duplication problems we've been seeing lately, I'm seriously
considering jacking up the 'retain' time for history lines to 8 weeks
(56 days), at least on the systems I run that have disk space enough for
such foolishness.  Any comments?

				 AMBAR
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