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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
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Subject: Re: More duplicates from 19 October
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Date: 14 Nov 89 17:38:56 GMT
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From article <AMBAR.89Nov12190742@portnoy.mit.edu>, by ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz):
> 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

This is news to me and I am a bit surprised, since the perl nntpsend
doesn't do anything with the batch files after forking the nntpxmit.
What are the particulars of how files are trashed?

Also, how could trashing a batch file result in transmission of old news?
I would think that that would result, instead, in a loss of news.

Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu