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From: battan@tc.fluke.COM (Jim Battan)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: brentp@microsoft
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Date: 12 Oct 88 15:21:35 GMT
References: <16262@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <387@asi.UUCP>
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In article <387@asi.UUCP> metro@asi.UUCP (Metro T. Sauper) writes:
>If you noticed,
>the three articles from microsoft (one in each of misc.test, rec.games.hack,
>and sci.space.shuttle) each have a tab in the message ID.

I found four of them.  Articles 108, 109, 110, and 111 @microsoft all have
the tab plus some extra text (25144,1,1) in them.  109 is in soc.motss.

I did two things (I'm on a BSD system; USG is probably different):  Edit the
articles to remove the junk between microsoft and .UUCP.  Then run whatever
expire(s) you run, but also use the -r flag to ignore and rebuild the history
file and its dbm database.  See the expire man page for more info.
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