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From: abrams@max.arpa (The Ancient Programmer)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: News volume and duplicates
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Date: 8 May 89 14:30:12 GMT
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In article <667@dtscp1.UUCP> scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman) writes:
>A couple of questions:
>
>	Did news volume increase drastically the last couple of weeks?
>				:
>				:
>	I have noticed a number of duplicates floating through here.  I
>thought that the news software was supposed to take care of that.  We
>do keep the database info here for sometime (21 days I think I specify
>on expire), but I have noticed a number of back-to-back duplicates.  Can
>someone give me a clue as to how I can track down where the problem is?
	
	My spool disk filled too overflowing, and we found between 1-2000
duplicate articles, which had been posted as separate articles.  For some
reason, our News software was not able to identify these articles as
duplicates even though they had identical IDs. I don't know when this 
problem began here. 
	We are running at patchlevel 17, of News and we get our 
feed from two sources via nntp.
>
>Are there problems others know about?

	Ditto. Any clues gratefully accepted.

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