[net.news.adm] Articles ending up in "junk"

mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch) (12/03/85)

We seem to get a large number of articles that end up in the "junk"
newsgroup.  Most of them are posted from sites that have site names in
capital letters (e.g., ISM780 and ICO); practically all of them are
running Notesfiles. The headers of the articles superficially appear OK.

Is this a known problem for which there is a fix?  We are running
2.10.2 (8/14/84 version). Any hints gratefully appreciated.

Michael C. Berch
News admininstrator - styx
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mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch) (12/07/85)

Thanks to all who responded to my request re junked articles.

The real problem was that inews was not logging properly. I reinstalled
it and it began to log the junked articles. As I later came to suspect, 
they were merely too old.  The fact that they were mostly from notesfiles
systems and from sites with upper-case names were both red herrings;
it just happens that ISM780 and ICO are both running notes and they
are both very far away, topologically speaking, from styx.

Michael C. Berch
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