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In article <199707191424.AA01600@lobotomy.demon.co.uk> I wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> The last couple of weekends, I've noticed that the unbatch program is bombing
> (two bombs).  I've not changed the software (up-to-date NOS and Snews, I
> believe), so I can only assume it's data-related.

Yup, it was data-related.  Not quite sure what it was, but I moved my history
files out of the way and everything was fine after that.

> One thing that has happened on each occasion whilst downloading my news is that
> nntp tells me it has retrieved many more headers than expected.  I usually
> expect about 700 articles for the newsgroups I subscribe to, but I've received
> over 3000 headers.  So as the download progresses, I suddenly get (literally)
> thousands of "430 no such article" messages - mostly appearing to be from the
> same small number of hosts.  And so I get over 3000 articles "unavailable" and
> I'm left with the 700-odd I was expecting.

OK, I've since read all about this!  What an arsehole...

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