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From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
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Subject: Re: cnews inbound batches going into in.coming/bad
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Date: 4 Oct 90 15:22:21 GMT
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In article <1990Sep27.171401.2268@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>No, they'll be processed just fine, but the *next* time you feed them in,
>they will all be duplicates.

Whenever I have enough time to do this, I move in.coming/bad/* into in.coming.
It might just give a lot of duplicates in the log file - no harm there.
It may save some batches that were thrown out because of some temporary
resource problem.....Real bad batches will die a horrible death.

Cheers,
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