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From: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: news.config
Subject: Re: What is elm newsgroup doing??
Message-ID: <164@yetti.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 11:04:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: yetti.164
Posted: Thu Sep 10 11:04:16 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 04:04:46 EDT
References: <196@qetzal.UUCP>
Reply-To: oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York U. Computer Science
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In article <196@qetzal.UUCP> rcw@qetzal.UUCP (sysop) writes:
>For the last week or so, the comp.mail.elm or some such newsgroup
>is creating havoc on my system. Somehow, it crashes rnews and
>creates a dead.letter and core file in my .rnews directory, 
>forcing me to have to remove the locks and restart rnews -U.
>Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
>

	A control message to that newsgroup managed to ground
	2.11news on yetti to an absolute halt. Next morning,
	I found 40 inews processes stuck in that control message.
	It was necessary to kill rnews (and thereby lose the batch)
	to clear the problem. This has been reported to rick@uunet.

	oz

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