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From: mack@inco.UUCP (Dave Mack)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: hand recovery of dropped news?
Message-ID: <143@inco.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 08:39:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: inco.143
Posted: Tue May 19 08:39:41 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 20-May-87 05:39:14 EDT
References: <618@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: McDonnell Douglas-INCO, McLean, VA
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Keywords: news junk lossage recovery
Summary: One way of redistributing junk


	I recently had a similar problem (botched active file).
	The following fix *almost* worked:

	1) create an input file for batch consisting of the file
	   names (full path) in junk, one file per line. 

	2) batch namelist > junk.files

	3) expire -n junk -e 0

	4) unbatch < junk.files

	This method has two problems:

	1) It doesn't appear to work on articles with explicit 
	   expiration dates in the header (expire -e doesn't seem
	   to override.)

	2) It doesn't send them to your downstream sites. You may
	   need to feed junk.files into news another way.

	Good luck!
	Dave Mack
	inco!mack