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From: shor@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Melinda Shore)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin
Subject: Re: Negative Article ID's
Message-ID: <1525@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 09:58:09 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 24 09:58:09 1987
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In article <3673@drutx.ATT.COM> clay@drutx.ATT.COM (Clay Lambert) writes:
>
>	  I seem to be getting news articles with negative article
>	numbers (i.e. <-4@uokmax.UUCP>, for one example).  Has 
>	anyone else seen this, and does anyone know where it comes
>	from?  Our 2.11 (Patchlevel 8) rnews says the articles are
>	too old and puts them in the junk directory.

I've seen the same thing.  They're all destined for sci.astro, and
they've all have notes headers on them.  While most have low-degree
negative numbers, some of the numbers have been quite surprising, for
example <-3915066@bbimg>.  Most of them are about three weeks old
(we expire after a week).
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Melinda Shore                               ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!shor
University of Chicago Computation Center         shor@sphinx.uchicago.edu