Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!itivax!scs From: scs@itivax.iti.org (Steve Simmons) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: More duplicates from 19 October Message-ID: <4408@itivax.iti.org> Date: 13 Nov 89 13:32:22 GMT References: <1989Nov12.221000.13228@rpi.edu> Organization: Industrial Technology Institute, Ann Arbor, MI. Lines: 15 ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz) writes: > From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) > We have duplicates coming in today dated 19 Oct. The sites in > common in the paths . . . >I suspect that . . . other feeds > b) don't keep a full month's worth of net news. We had a similar problem here in MI. One site retransmitted all kinds of articles. The only long-term cure has been for all the neighbors to go to 30 day histories. Your proposed 8 weeks is probably excessive. -- Steve Simmons scs@iti.org Industrial Technology Institute You're not a big name on Usenet until someone puts you in their .sig file.