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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cnews and old news
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Date: 23 Sep 90 15:50:34 GMT
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>>	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 ...
>
>We had hoped that keeping more history, using dbz's more efficient history
>database, would be sufficient.  I think the answer is no.

I agree, a netwide meltdown will happen sooner or later if it doesn't 
have such a check.  I'd make it a #define so that leaf sites (which 
tend to have slower machines) don't have to run it.  Speedups to 
getdate() might be possible also.  

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Jon Zeeff (NIC handle JZ)	 zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us