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From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (Dave Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: Another forgery
Message-ID: <2578164C.12F@rpi.edu>
Date: 2 Dec 89 18:36:59 GMT
References: <8023@ficc.uu.net> <4V.ZZG@splut.conmicro.com> <312@dbase.UUCP>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In article <312@dbase.UUCP> dveditz@dbase.UUCP (Dan Veditz) writes:

   Does anyone know what will happen when the *real* 8023 from ficc tries
   to propagate in a few weeks?

It will likely reache a smaller percentage of sites than it would
otherwise reach.  This depends on a number of factors, including how
long it takes ficc to get to that sequence number, how long its feed
sites keep around history, and how long the rest of the sites are
keeping history.

For example: ficc hits 8023 tomorrow and all of the ficc feed sites
keep around news history information for two weeks.  That article will
not leave ficc.

Another: ficc hits 8023 about three weeks after the forgery, but the
ficc feeds only keep the above mentioned two weeks of history.  The
article will get off ficc, but it will not hit any site that keeps
three weeks or more worth of history, or any site that is fed entirely
by sites like this.  While the two weeks of history is pretty common,
many sites, especially larger ones, keep history information longer.

Last example: ficc hits 8023 in ninety days or more from now (not to
be expected with Peter and Jeff both there :-).  It will probably get
the same distribution it would otherwise get.

Dave
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