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From: pete@mimsy.umd.edu (Pete Cottrell)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Cnews and old news
Message-ID: <26675@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 22 Sep 90 20:01:55 GMT
Reply-To: pete@mimsy.umd.edu (Pete Cottrell)
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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	I am running Bnews 2.11.14 and have HISTEXP set to 28 days. One of 
my major feeds is running Cnews and several times in the last few weeks has 
been feeding me lots of old articles. One time I got about 10,000 in 2
or 3  days, and I have gotten several thousand more in the last 3 days.
The latest batch are mostly 30-40 days old, but I've seen some going back 
to July and June. They all have the same Path leading up to mimsy:

mimsy!haven!decuac!e2big.mko.dec.com!bacchus.pa.dec.com!decwrl

On the other side of decwrl are various hosts, so it seems a good bet that
one of the DEC machines listed above is recycling the news.
	I have heard that Cnews doesn't have any mechanism to junk the
old news and prevent its propogation, but I don't know for sure since
I'm not familiar with it (I'll probably go to it sometime this fall - I
seem to remember Henry stating that they would be reorganizing the release
and was waiting for that. Any updates on this?). So, Cnews experts, how
does Cnews handle the question of old news? Is there anything I or my feeds
can do to prevent my news partition filling up with junk?
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