cathyf@Rice.EDU (Catherine A. Foulston) (08/03/89)
Help! As many people have observed in news.admin, a bunch of old
articles got dumped out on the net. I don't understand why the
history mechanism is not causing these articles to be rejected.
o I am running B News 2.11 patchlevel 17 and nntp 1.5.5.
o I am running expire nightly and rebuilding once a week. Articles
are supposed to stay around for 2 weeks or less depending on the
newsgroup. History is supposed to be retained for 30 days for
ALL articles. At least this is what I think I am doing with expire.
Maybe I don't understand it. What options am I supposed to give
expire to make it do this?
o I recently converted from the old usg-style history to using ndbm.
At that time I *completely* rebuilt the history file from scratch.
o There are two copies of most of the duplicates in the directory.
Doing a diff on them shows that only the path is different.
o Only the LATER of the two copies appears in the history file.
o Most recently the problem has been with the large batch of old news
that everybody got that was dated July 22. But I have had this
problem before (even before I converted to ndbm).
Maybe I just don't understand how expire or history are supposed to
work. If anyone can explain this to me or suggest possible sources
of this problem, I would appreciate it greatly. Many thanks in
advance. (P.S: I already RTFM--I guess I don't understand it.)
regards,
cathy :) As usual, email replies are probably better than posts
Cathy Foulston =||= cathyf@rice.edu =||= {backbone?}!rice!cathyf
Disclaimer: I'm a student--I don't even KNOW Rice University's opinion.tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (08/03/89)
In <413@brazos.Rice.edu> cathyf@Rice.EDU (Catherine A. Foulston) writes:
CAF> o Most recently the problem has been with the large batch of old news
CAF> that everybody got that was dated July 22.
Don't let the 22 July date fool you. As many of the message-ids
reveal (as do the contents of some mor topical articles) the messages
are really from June.
Dave
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(setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) (08/04/89)
I think the articles are really from well before Jul 22. So although this date may fall within your "history.*" range, the articles themselves won't have matching IDs to spot and force a silent cancel. -- "We walked on the moon -- (( Tom Neff you be polite" )) tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET
allbery@nc386.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) (08/08/89)
Uh, if I remember correctly (ha!) the last time this happened some site had inserted tabs into the Message-IDs. (Of course, that bug was supposed to have been fixed....) Has anyone looked to see what the message-IDs have in common, if anything? ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@NCoast.ORG uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu "Why do trans-atlantic transfers take so long?" "Electrons don't swim very fast." -john@minster.york.ac.uk and whh@PacBell.COM