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From: Tim@lll-lcc.UUcp (Tim Kehres)
Newsgroups: net.news,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: The most expensive bug in the history of Usenet?
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Date: Mon, 12-May-86 21:11:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 12 21:11:08 1986
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Cc:

In article <221@epimass.UUCP> you write:
>Sometime over the weekend, it seems that site 'hpitg' shipped
>everything in its spool back out to the net, 10-20 Mbytes
>worth.  You can recognize these articles on your machine by
>their "Path:" headers, which have the form
>
>   Path: ...!hpitg!site!user@site
>
>Normally, Path headers have no @'s in them, and "site" can be
>any site on the net.
>
>Fortunately, the full 20 Mb won't go everywhere, because spool
>directories should fill up all over the net first, and the same
>message-IDs were used, so I hope some of the backbone sites keep
>news around for a long time (so the old Message-IDs will still
>be in the history file).  Expect a larger phone bill this month.
>
>-- 
>- Joe Buck 	{ihnp4!pesnta,oliveb}!epimass!jbuck
>  Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, California
>
>Better living through entropy!


If  the message ID's were left the same, most sites should drop most
of the articles as "duplicate".  Please let me know if this is not the
case.


Tim Kehres
Control Data Corporaton / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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