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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.


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