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From: jerry@olivey.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: More duplicates from 19 October
Summary: Increase your history time
Message-ID: <51035@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Date: 20 Nov 89 20:01:15 GMT
References: <1989Nov12.221000.13228@rpi.edu> <AMBAR.89Nov12190742@portnoy.mit.edu>
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In article <AMBAR.89Nov12190742@portnoy.mit.edu> ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz) writes:
>   ...!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 did notice the queue for mintaka getting a little big while it was
down.  I keep news on oliveb for 28 days so mintaka could be getting
articles from me that were that old.

Isn't rnews supposed to trash articles that were posted before the
history expire limit?  I suggest that sites keep their history longer,
expecially a non-leaf site such as "think".  I use a value of 40 days.

				Jerry Aguirre