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From: bernd@actisb.UUCP (Bernd-Gunter Nitzler)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Problems with expiring news....
Message-ID: <174@actisb.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 88 13:54:43 GMT
References: <3182@potomac.ads.com>
Reply-To: bernd@actisb.UUCP (Bernd-Gunter Nitzler)
Organization: Actis in Berlin GmbH, W. Germany
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In article <3182@potomac.ads.com> jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson) writes:
>Why do I have so many garbled news articles when I expire news?  Does
>this indicate that there have been transmission errors and that there
>is garbage in the news article?
>
>I have all 14 patches installed in news 2.11.

We have the same version of news also with all 14 patches in our UNIX V.
The history-files in the directory history.d were garbled every time
the system get new batched news while expire runs at the same time.
We had not noted garbled news articles yet, but we read not all news
articles so there can exist garbled articles too.

In our 4.2BSD system there are no problems at all with expire in the
same version of news. In this system there seems to be a bug with the
"sys"-file in .../lib/news. If we define anything else than "all,all.all"
for forwarding batched news to the next system there are a lot of
articles missing at the other end. We have not yet found anything
systematic in the missing articles.

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