Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!news From: news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Network News) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Old articles reposted: the saga continues Summary: It will be fixed Message-ID: <2777@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 16 Aug 89 14:53:23 GMT References: <524@logicon.arpa> Reply-To: news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Network News) Organization: University of Rochester Lines: 30 In article <524@logicon.arpa> you write: >It's happening again! Below are the message-ids of 70 articles that >originally appeared about June 30 but have been reposted with a date >of August 8. They all include > >rochester!rit!tropix!moscom!ur-valhalla!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!sunybcs > >in their Path: lines, and none of the articles are in the alt >hierarchy. I find it easier to simply delete the offending files than >to generate local cancel messages for them. ... > :: Jeff Makey ... > Internet: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA UUCP: {nosc,ucsd}!logicon.arpa!Makey 67 of the 70 offending articles are in the misc hierarchy. It appears that we have a news loop here in Western NY, with old news occasionally injected back into the larger net after its history records have expired. With a little inspired guesswork, I have deduced that some of the sites involved are expiring history for at least the misc hierarchy at 7 days. I have already contacted the other sites involved and asked them to check their history expiration period. Since we are one of the sites involved, I will accept WELL DOCUMENTED complaints of future occurances. Please send mail to news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu. Mail directly to me on this topic will probably be ignored. Scott Leadley UCC News Administrator news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu