john@genrad.UUCP (John Nelson) (10/17/83)
We have just recieved a flurry of repeats of old articles (all dated around september 12-25). Obviously these are due to slow links sending us news two weeks or more after the original article arrived. We cannot extend article life here, in fact, with our disk crunch, we should be SHORTENING article life. How difficult would it be to extend the life of the LIST of articles recieved? If we could maintain the LIST for two months, but expire each article after one week, then we would be sure not to recieve repeats. Has anyone looked at this? Is it feasable? I am not really the news guru at this site, or I might consider tackling it myself! John P. Nelson (decvax!genrad!john) Genrad MS 96 37 Great Road Bolton MA 01740