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From: wolfgang@wsrcc (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Bogus control -- need I do anything?
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.014042.17586@wsrcc>
Date: 14 Sep 90 01:40:42 GMT
References: <1990Sep12.180429.4305@barsoom.nhh.no> <1990Sep13.033355.1567@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: Wolfgang S Rupprecht Computer Consulting, Washington DC.
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1990Sep12.180429.4305@barsoom.nhh.no> tih@barsoom.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo) writes:
>>I'm new to Cnews, and the documentation isn't too detailed...  Since this
>>is obviously a forgery (and seemingly a pretty poor one at that), am I
>>right in assuming that no damage has been done, and I can simply ignore it?
>Correct.  The only negative effect is the batch file cluttering up "bad",
>and even that will go away in a few days if you're running our standard
>housekeeping stuff.

Does the batch really need to be junked?  I just fed it to newsrun
again.  Was this superfluous or would the articles after the bad
control msg in the batch have been lost?

-wolfgang
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