Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: cnews inbound batches going into in.coming/bad
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.143619.21521@druid.uucp>
Date: 26 Sep 90 14:36:19 GMT
References: <1990Sep24.180726.11442@nstar.uucp> <1990Sep25.151613.1979@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <1990Sep25.151613.1979@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
> [...]
>There is also a pervasive illusion that re-running a batch and having it
>work fine tells you something.  Wrong.  Since most batches end up in bad
>because of a flaw in a single article, and all articles in the batch will
>be rejected as duplicates when you re-run the batch, re-running it tells
>you *nothing* in general.

Does this mean that if a batch has one duplicated article then the entire
batch is thrown away?  Wouldn't that cause problems with sites that get
two feeds with a partial overlap?  If not, perhaps you mean that the article
that caused the problem is marked as received and therefore is seen as a
duplicate as well.  This would still mean that a redundant feed would have
no chance to correct the error.

Inquiring minds want to know.  :-)

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