Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!tale From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: old news Message-ID: <&R##ZZ^@rpi.edu> Date: 19 Feb 90 09:18:41 GMT References: <50943@sgi.sgi.com> <13956@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 12 In <13956@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> jskelly@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jim Kelly): > Why does the news take pains to give articles unique ID numbers So sites don't get multiple copies of the same article. Any site that is fed by more than one other would run the risk otherwise. > and keep a "References:" line if the articles can't be retrieved? They can be, just not forever. We expire most news articles after they have been around here for two weeks. The three articles in the References: line of this message are still quite fresh on our system and I can get to them very easily through my newsreader.