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From: throopw@dg_rtp.UUCP (Wayne Throop)
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Subject: Re: New! Improved! Line-Eater bug!!
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Date: Thu, 23-Oct-86 14:09:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 23 14:09:09 1986
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> grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
>> throopw@dg_rtp.UUCP (Wayne Throop)

>>The Line-Eater lives!!!  Well, not *THE* line eater, mind you.  Just a
>>distant relative.
> Any reason not to assume it's the boring (but painful) 'oops, excuse me
> while my spool filesystem fills up' syndrome?

It might well be.  But there have been so many of them lately, and over
such a span of time that it seemed unlikely that a single disk space
crunch episode could explain the problem.  Of course, if many of the
truncated articles passed through a system with a *chronic* disk space
crunch in its recent history, then "The problem is sol-ved."

> Sure would be nice if this
> new 2.11 stuff purges articles that had errors on writing to disk, rather
> than leaving them lay about for re-transmission...

Say "Amen!", somebody.

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