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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: sloppy systems
Message-ID: <966@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Oct-83 19:52:37 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 15 19:52:37 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Oct-83 12:26:48 EDT
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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The system is not "sloppy".  What happened is that utzoo collected all
of the news that came in for the week that watmath was down, plus or minus
a little, and then wrote it on a tape to send to us.  It was intended that
we would get the tape shortly after watmath came back up, within the
one-month expiry period, and thus any duplicate articles generated by
this would simply get thrown away.  Due to various problems,
we didn't get the tape until this week.  The contents of the tape
was then fed into the news system anyway.  None of these articles
should have been sent back to the rest of the Ontario subnet; only
Waterloo sites should see duplicates.  It's something we can do
little about, since we don't have history information dating back
that far.  Yes, a special check could be made for stuff posted
from waterloo, but it's not worth the effort.