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From: ra@rlgvax.UUCP (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Flood of duplicate articles
Message-ID: <1311@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Oct-83 22:07:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1311
Posted: Thu Oct 20 22:07:04 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Oct-83 21:22:45 EDT
References: <202@bbncca.ARPA>
Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA
Lines: 41

The following change to inews.c make it reject any articles that
were submitted more than your default expiration time ago. (In
most cases that is 2 weeks).

It works fine. I am a little leary of doing this, but the biggest
time delay I could find was 6 days between submission and
receipt and that's a lot less than the 14 day cutoff I am running
with.

If you choose to install this, I would advise keeping an eye
on your logfile out of pure paranoia. (But we have had no
problems with it so far.)

Rick Adams
CCI Office Systems Group
{seismo|allegra|ihnp4|mcnc}!rlgvax!ra


*** inews.c	Thu Oct 20 19:01:49 1983
--- inews.c.old	Thu Oct 20 21:38:24 1983
***************
*** 331,341
  			log("Duplicate article %s rejected", header.ident);
  			xxit(0);
  		}
- 		if (time(0L) > (cgtdate(header.subdate) + DFLTEXP) ){
- 			fprintf(stderr,"Article %s too old, rejected\n", header.ident);
- 			log("Article %s too old, rejected\n", header.ident);
- 			xxit(0);
- 		}
  	}
  	ngcat(header.nbuf);


--- 331,336 -----
  			log("Duplicate article %s rejected", header.ident);
  			xxit(0);
  		}
  	}
  	ngcat(header.nbuf);