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From: tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,news.admin
Subject: Re: Time warp
Summary: it's a bad one!
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Date: 22 Feb 89 16:48:49 GMT
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In article <10802@well.UUCP>, ewhac@well (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
>	Someone appears to be perpetrating another Time Warp on
>comp.sys.amiga.  You know, old articles getting echoed back to the Net.

>Path: well!pacbell!ames!xanth!ukma!.....

You aren't kidding!  It's not just comp.sys.amiga, either.  Xanth runs
with only 36M for news, and it's been overflowing several days in a
row.  Someone has really opened up the sluices...

The -p option of expire is useful against this.  I'm right now
modifying our rnews to reject articles that were posted too long ago
(2 weeks, I guess), and I'm upping our history retention to 40 days.

It's really annoying.

	...tad