bentson (12/27/82)
Some time in the past I saw some site admitting to creating extra
submissions out of notesfile because the clock had been changed.
Is this what happened to zehntel? I don't think anyone else created
the duplicate en route because the Article-I.D.s were different.
If you have any idea on how to avoid this problem, please tell
the world (of notesfile users) what to do so that we all don't
have to reread articles. {This is one case where "n" doesn't offer
any solice because each time the article arrives the Subject line
is attractive enough to warrent reading the article. It is only
after starting to read the article is the duplicate recognized.}
Randy Bentson
Colo State U - Comp Scipat (01/02/83)
#R:csu-cs:-194700:uicsovax:18600006:000:106 uicsovax!pat Jan 2 01:08:00 1983 Notes should have thrown the duplicate msgs away. Were the seq. number different too ? Pat Kane
berry (01/04/83)
We are not sure what happened here at Zehntel. The "newsoutput" program
is putting out repetitive copies of notes, so we have removed it from our
crontab. ("newsoutput" is the program that moves notes from the notesfile
system into the news system.) I suspect corrupted article dates in one of our
notesfiles (or several of them actualy). I am going to write a program to
dump the actual data in the index files and see what I can see.
Sorry for the inconvenience. Most of us were gone for the Christmas holiday
and didn't notice until too late...
--Berry Kercheval
Zehntel Inc.