[news.admin] Old articles from Europe showing up

karl@mumble.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (12/15/87)

I am getting a number of old articles which inews is refusing to
accept normally, stuffing them into junk rather than their intended
newsgroup home.  All of them have Path: lines from the far side of
mcvax (from my point of view, of course).  The Date: and From: lines
from this morning's batch are:

Date: 27 Nov 87 19:21:52 GMT    From: steve@gec-mi-at.co.uk (Steve Lademann) 
Date: 30 Nov 87 11:22:31 GMT	From: khh@root.co.uk (Keith Holder)          
Date: 30 Nov 87 13:59:46 GMT	From: cdwf@root.co.uk (Clive D.W. Feather)   
Date: 1 Dec 87 08:57:49 GMT	From: cdwf@root.co.uk (Clive D.W. Feather)   
Date: 30 Nov 87 16:20:00 GMT	From: woerz@iaoobelix.UUCP                   
Date: 30 Nov 87 16:57:46 GMT	From: lhe@sics.se (Lars-Henrik Eriksson)     
Date: 30 Nov 87 17:01:55 GMT	From: lhe@sics.se (Lars-Henrik Eriksson)     
Date: 30 Nov 87 21:20:52 GMT	From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)          
Date: 30 Nov 87 13:09:34 GMT	From: jesper@diku.UUCP (Jesper L. Lauritsen) 
Date: 27 Nov 87 13:45:03 GMT	From: ih@dde.uucp (Ib Hoejme)                
Date: 27 Nov 87 15:27:23 GMT	From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Stellan Bergman)      
Date: 30 Nov 87 10:27:33 GMT	From: adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt)       
Date: 30 Nov 87 12:19:29 GMT	From: csnjr@its63b.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)  
Date: 30 Nov 87 13:57:00 GMT	From: dao@cs.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne)      
Date: 30 Nov 87 18:02:40 GMT	From: adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt)       
Date: 30 Nov 87 10:45:09 GMT	From: geraint@epistemi.UUCP (Geraint Wiggins)
Date: 30 Nov 87 19:02:24 GMT	From: rh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Rachel Harrison)      
Date: 1 Dec 87 09:13:07 GMT	From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)         
Date: 1 Dec 87 08:29:38 GMT	From: defert@cernvax.UUCP (defert)           
Date: 30 Nov 87 13:01:03 GMT	From: ksand@mapper.UUCP (Kent Sandvik++)     
Date: 1 Dec 87 12:27:47 GMT	From: pesv@enea.UUCP (Peter Svenson)

I am set up with DFLTEXP of 1 week and HISTEXP of 2 weeks; I don't
know if that matters or not, but it's the only general config
parameters I changed (from 2 weeks and 4 weeks, respectively) when I
upgraded to patchlevel 12.

In any event, these articles *are* rather old.  Does anyone in Europe
or at the gateways know why they're just now getting here?
-=-
Karl