david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) (09/05/88)
In article <673@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> emv@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: >In article <10164@s.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) writes: >>What can I say .... It was *working* when I left! :-) >some old news from ukma (dated 14 august or so) is leaking out via >the ukma!uflorida!mailrus links. I thought I had expire keeping >old article ids around for long enough, but I guess not. I thought the default action for expire *was* to keep old article ids around ... Anyway, we've been getting a bunch of old news in the last day or two from rutgers, since they just switched over their news feed to our new nntp machine. Fortunately they were a restricted link, just 'nearby' articles as I recall. But it filled up the news file system (90 megs worth! of *just* news!) and I ended up running an expire -e 10. It's now down to a more reasonable level of about 50-60 megs. The articles in question are all from early to mid august, and today I was seeing articles from late august... Sorry for any inconvenience. And remember to check the date of articles before flaming someone talking about old information. -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <david@ms.uky.edu> <---- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- Problem: how to get people to call ...; Solution: Completely reconfigure <---- your mail system then leave for a weeks vacation when 90% done.