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Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!csus.edu!nic.csu.net!csun!kithrup!sef
From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.os.minix
Subject: old minix articles
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.093943.21936@kithrup.COM>
Date: 12 Mar 91 09:39:43 GMT
Sender: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Lines: 31

I currently have my modem being tied up getting almost a thousands articles
in comp.os.minix.  Lucky me (and dozens of other sites) are going to get a
blast from the past:  some of the messages I'm getting have dates from Jul
1990.  Yes, *July*.  As in, over 8 months old.  Somebody screwed up, and I
wish they would stop screwing immediately, if not sooner.

Henry or Geoff, if you're reading this, can we please get a time limit in
dnews?  That is, if an articles is older than <bleah>, don't even bother
entering it into the history file.  That would have stopped this about 14
sites back.

For the curious or morbid, here is a header from one of the files.  The
newlines in the Path: line were there as I got it, I didn't put them in.

	Path: kithrup!csun!nic.csu.net!csus.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!hp-col!col!hpcc01!hplabs!ucbvax!ucsd!usc!
	 cs.utexas.edu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!sce!graham
	Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
	Subject: Assorted questions
	Message-ID: <877@sce.carleton.ca>
	From: graham@sce.carleton.ca (Doug Graham)
	Date: Fri, 13 Jul 1990 11:26:19 GMT
	Organization: Systems & Computer Eng. Dept.,Carleton University,Ottawa,Canada
	Lines: 92

I have no idea who the offending culprit might be.

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it;
sef@kithrup.COM  |  I had a bellyache at the time."
-----------------+           -- The Turtle (Stephen King, _It_)
Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.