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- From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: 0 length files for outgoing news.. why???
- Message-ID: <1R8qXB5w165w@dogbox.acme.gen.nz>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 13:10:23 +1300
- References: <JyykXB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Organization: The Dawghaus BBS, Palmerston North, New Zealand (+64 6 357 9245)
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- tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
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- > This has been brought up several times and at least once by myself.
- >
- > I thought the answer was that news was being deleted (more news in one
- > session than /keep allowed) and that they weren't being queued properly.
- >
- > Now I run a time based expire. (CWEXP i think, but i've been trying out
- > several). The only problem is I'm still getting them.
- > Any ideas?
-
- Yep.
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- Someone on your system has posted an article, then cancelled it.
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- Posting adds the article to the list of stuff to be batched,
- but cancelling it doesn't remove it from the list, so when
- your machine tries to batch, it can't find the article and
- screams.
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- Alan Brown. (SysAdmin)
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