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- From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: out of sequence news. ( UUXQT question )
- Message-ID: <y4suXB10w165w@status.gen.nz>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 11:43:57 GMT
- References: <930119.165335.6p0.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
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- russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:
-
- > dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister) writes:
- >
- > > I was watching my system poll today, and I noticed that UUXQT
- > > seemed to process files in reverse cronological order.
- >
- > here, it processes them in the order it finds them in the directory -
- > so it depends how they got sent. I've seen them come in all sorts of
- > ways - but every time I run out of disk, it was working on the first
- > one in the DIR listing. always.
- >
-
- I feed a few uucp sites here in my city (12) and I too have noticed
- a few simular problems. These relate to news I feed to these news
- sites via uucp/uucico.
-
- All their news is batched up in numeric order in their /spool/sitename
- directory. However when they poll me for it they seem to get a muddled
- feed ie
-
- 5798
- 5799
- 5743
- 5744
-
- and so on. Why does this happen. I would have suspected it would have
- be in numeric order as well but it is not for some reason. I have
- however noted this only seems to effect news.feeds over 1meg and as
- most sites poll 1-3 megs per session I wonder if I should be concerned
- about this.
-
-
- Jon Clarke Z*NET Pacific
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