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From: abrams@bnlux0 (The Ancient Programmer)
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Subject: Strange articles
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Date: 14 Feb 90 20:27:57 GMT
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	I am running News 2.11.18 and an having a problem with "strange" files.
Periodically, my News spool is being inundated with files with long numeric 
names in the /usr/spool/news and /usr/spool/news/.rnews directories. One such
file is  .../news/.rnews/9002045647f3.

	It has a message id of <5132@sugar.hackercorp.com> and a creation
date/time of Feb. 9 09:56(EST).  There is no record of this article in the log
or history file, but grep shows a <5132@sugar.hackercorp.com> article
in the log and history files with a creation date/time of Feb. 9, 14:06(EST)
and a path of news.comp.sys.amiga.tech/10073. Sure enough, an article
news/comp/sys/amiga/tech/10073 was created on Feb. 9, 14:06(EST).

	A diff of both articles shows only one difference, and that is in
the Path: entry.  In the .rnews copy of the article, my sitename is missing
from the path, while in the news/comp/sys/amiga/tech/10073 copy, my sitename
appears in the path.

	In addition, expire seems to hang when processing these files with
long numeric names.

	Has anyone had similar problems? Does anyone have  any idea about 
what is going on here?