Re: Anybody else use Changi with Demon?

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From: Dave Liquorice
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00

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On Sun, 04 Oct 1998 20:56:03 GMT, Chris H Lindley wrote:

> I mean normally I d/load about 500 messagesd a day!

Only 500? Don't keep an eye on the number of messages but the average news 
batch is about 750k, with a spread from 200k to over 1M.

> Plus I know that a lot of these are duplicates, because when I expire 
> them, it expires more messages than it scans!!

Something wrong with your history file? Are you expiring with to short a 
time? Rnews should report "435 Got It" or something similar for dupes that 
the history file doesn't catch.

> I used to do this, but found if the line was dropped, and In-joy
> redialled, when it restarted the rnews batch file, it lost all the
> original news!!!

Probably not using two >'s for the redirection pipe to the news batch file.
">" deletes an existing file and starts a fresh, ">>" appends the new data 
to an existing file or starts a new one.

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Cheers                                        newspam@nexus.demon.co.uk
Dave.                                    Remove "spam" for valid email.

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