sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) (10/18/83)
Thus we see dramatically, how the network news can be made almost unusuable by the recent flood of messages greater than two weeks old. Is there any progress being made on this? That brings up the other problem--USENET is so decentralized, with no locus of responsibility, that everyone sits back saying "Is there any progress bring made on this?" /Steve decvax!bbncca!sdyer
ra@rlgvax.UUCP (Rick Adams) (10/21/83)
The following change to inews.c make it reject any articles that
were submitted more than your default expiration time ago. (In
most cases that is 2 weeks).
It works fine. I am a little leary of doing this, but the biggest
time delay I could find was 6 days between submission and
receipt and that's a lot less than the 14 day cutoff I am running
with.
If you choose to install this, I would advise keeping an eye
on your logfile out of pure paranoia. (But we have had no
problems with it so far.)
Rick Adams
CCI Office Systems Group
{seismo|allegra|ihnp4|mcnc}!rlgvax!ra
*** inews.c Thu Oct 20 19:01:49 1983
--- inews.c.old Thu Oct 20 21:38:24 1983
***************
*** 331,341
log("Duplicate article %s rejected", header.ident);
xxit(0);
}
- if (time(0L) > (cgtdate(header.subdate) + DFLTEXP) ){
- fprintf(stderr,"Article %s too old, rejected\n", header.ident);
- log("Article %s too old, rejected\n", header.ident);
- xxit(0);
- }
}
ngcat(header.nbuf);
--- 331,336 -----
log("Duplicate article %s rejected", header.ident);
xxit(0);
}
}
ngcat(header.nbuf);