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From: guy@enmasse.UUCP (One Hip Dude)
Newsgroups: net.bugs,net.news
Subject: Re: Is there a bug in Usenet?
Message-ID: <312@enmasse.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Jun-86 11:53:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 30 11:53:57 1986
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In article <584@codas.ATT.UUCP> mikel@codas.ATT.UUCP (Mikel Manitius) writes:
>I just logged in to find out that both our active and
>history files had been wiped out to zero bytes. It was
>easy enough to recover, but does anyone know of a bug
>in the news software (ver 2.10.2) that bas been known
>to do such things?
>-- 
>			Mikel Manitius @ AT&T-IS Altamonte Springs, FL
>			...{seismo!akgua|ihnp4|cbosgd}!codas!mikel.ATT.UUCP

I have known this to happen when the file system (on which the history
and active files reside) runs out of free blocks or inodes.
-- 
                                           -- guy k hillyer
{decvax!genrad,harvard!talcott}!panda!enmasse!guy
                                panda!enmasse!guy@talcott.arpa