[news.sysadmin] Why are we seeing so many old messages?

lin@cs.wmich.edu (Lite Lin) (09/10/89)

I'm wondering why are we seeing old messages posted on 8/18, 8/17, or
even as early as 8/15.  They appear like new messages, while I did read
them before.  What happened?  Is that because part of the
network was partitioned for a while?  I'd appreciate it if someone could
tell me why.

	Lite


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flee@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) (09/10/89)

This weekend we received a large number of old articles dating since
12 August; sites that keep history for 30 days were probably not
affected.  (We (used to) keep history for 20 days.)  All the articles
have "hpftc" in the Path.
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