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From: adrian@ru-cs44.UUCP (Adrian Pell)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Deja vous???
Message-ID: <526@ru-cs44.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Oct-83 01:28:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: ru-cs44.526
Posted: Fri Oct 14 01:28:38 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Oct-83 07:10:49 EDT
Organization: Reading Univ. UK.
Lines: 38

Do you often get that feeling that "I've seen this before"??

Well, it's been happening to me a lot recently, and some investigation
revealed that a number of net articles have been arriving here in
the UK twice, the second more that a fortnight after the first.
Consider the following diff:

=============================
line 3 in '<', /usr/spool/oldnews/net/news/267
changed from line 3 in '>', /usr/spool/news/net/news/359:
< Path: ru-cs44!ukc!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5g!hou5h!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!cbosgd!ihnp4!we13!burl!spanky!ka
---
> Path: ru-cs44!ukc!vax135!floyd!whuxlb!pyuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!pyuxi!mhuxm!mhuxd!mhuxa!ulysses!cbosgd!ihnp4!we13!burl!spanky!ka

line 11 in '<', /usr/spool/oldnews/net/news/267
changed from line 11 in '>', /usr/spool/news/net/news/359:
< Date-Received: Thu, 8-Sep-83 19:19:18 BST
---
> Date-Received: Thu, 29-Sep-83 18:46:17 BST
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This article (spanky.475) was originally posted on Sep. 7 and made
it all the way to the UK in about a day by the short route.  However,
something along the long route delayed it by another 3 weeks, by which
time to original article has disappeared from history.

I hesitate to suggest that the default expiry time should be longer
since news space is not totally limitless, but ....

Wouldn't it be better to try and iron out some of the news loops around
the US, which should, I suppose, reduce the amount of net traffic.

Any thoughts?
-- 
Adrian Pell		({vax135,mcvax,edcaad}!ukc!ru-cs44!adrian)
Computer Science Dept.
University of Reading
UK