tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) (02/23/89)
In article <10802@well.UUCP>, ewhac@well (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes: > Someone appears to be perpetrating another Time Warp on >comp.sys.amiga. You know, old articles getting echoed back to the Net. >Path: well!pacbell!ames!xanth!ukma!..... You aren't kidding! It's not just comp.sys.amiga, either. Xanth runs with only 36M for news, and it's been overflowing several days in a row. Someone has really opened up the sluices... The -p option of expire is useful against this. I'm right now modifying our rnews to reject articles that were posted too long ago (2 weeks, I guess), and I'm upping our history retention to 40 days. It's really annoying. ...tad