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From: heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Expire Problem
Message-ID: <153@falkor.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 88 04:01:36 GMT
References: <816@grc.UUCP> <508@fig.bbn.com>
Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
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Rich Salz (rsalz@bbn.com) writes:
> If you use UUHOSTS to unpack the maps directory, then you don't need 
> the maps in your spool directory at all.  Get rid of them however
> you like, I.e.,

Rich makes the same mistake here that I've seen others make when
talking about getting rid of the map articles quickly.  That mistake
is that unless you are a LEAF node on Usenet, you have some responsibility
to keep the map articles around long enough that they can get batched
up for the sites you exchange news with.  In many cases, this is no
big deal, but if you are running a batching script that makes sure
that it doesn't batch "too much" into the uucp spool directory for
a particular site or if you are using ihave/sendme, then it may take
a couple of days for the articles to get batched for the other site.
If you've deleted them right after you received them, then they aren't
given any (or much) chance to propagate.  Let's be careful out there!
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP	Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix
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