Re: 0 length files for outgoing news.. why???

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From: Kennelmeister
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:10

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tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:

> 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.

Someone on your system has posted an article, then cancelled it.

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.

--
Alan Brown. (SysAdmin)
dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz                      Palmerston North
Dawghaus BBS -> +64 (6) 357-9245                New Zealand
             "A wet and windy place in the South Pacific"

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From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (Kennelmeister)
Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: 0 length files for outgoing news.. why???
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 13:10:23 +1300
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