Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!stanford.edu!msi.umn.edu!molenda From: molenda@s1.msi.umn.edu (Jason Molenda) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Weird stuff in my history file (cnews) Message-ID: <1991May6.085649.19174@s1.msi.umn.edu> Date: 6 May 91 08:56:49 GMT Article-I.D.: s1.1991May6.085649.19174 Organization: The Very Large Group of People Who Wish to Have More Money Lines: 42 I was just checking my history file for duplicate message ids with the following line a little earlier: awk '{print $1}' < /usr/lib/news/history | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | sort | uniq -d >/tmp/boog to see how significant case was in Message-IDs (I was about to hack up a piece of news sotware to make it case sensitive temporarily). I turned up something rather odd, though (the last few lines of /tmp/boog, there were about 900 lines in the file on my 15-day history file): So if I check the last one with the following command: egrep -i 'yzz911w164w@cellar.uucp' /usr/lib/news/history I get 673077310~- (Wed May 1 00:55:10 1991 CST) 673090384~- (Wed May 1 04:33:04 1991 CST) with the human-readable stuff in parens added by me. Why is this? The message ids are, as far as I can tell, identical. Is this some weird thing that happens with cancelled articles (I don't know if it was a cancelled article or if it just expired; I only have about 150 megs for news so chances are it was expired already). I'm running the March 24 Cnews on a Sun 3/60 running SunOS 4.0.3 with DBZ and NNTP for my news transport mechanism. Am I missing something obvious here? -- Jason Molenda, Tech Support, Iris & News Admin, Minnesota Supercomputer Inst molenda@msi.umn.edu || "You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish."