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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: sloppy systems
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Date: Sat, 15-Oct-83 23:18:12 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 15 23:18:12 1983
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The missing chunk at the beginning of the article is probably the
result of some system out there that hasn't fixed the truncation
bug.  Yes, there are systems that haven't.

The re-appearance of an old article is either a question of flakey
software somewhere or else simply a matter of a loop in the network.
The "history" file news keeps is partly intended to make sure that
looping articles get bounced, but the history data is not kept forever
and therefore an article that takes a long time to loop can sneak back
in.  This has happened before.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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