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On Wed, 15 Apr 98 22:41:02 +0100, newspam@nexus.demon.co.uk wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:13:29 GMT, Chris H Lindley wrote:
>
>> Well since the changes, I've had to delete ALL the article numbers
>> from news.watermark, and reload all the news groups.
>
>The last upgrade was a major replacement of the customer facing news 
>servers. They started from scratch, not attempting to get them in sync 
>with the old servers. This means that the article numbers restarted. 
>I'm pretty sure this is the only renumber that Demon have done this 
>year so your other one must have been a funny.

Actually yes. My faulty memory forgot I was actually living
in a different country then and using an entirely diff.
ISP.

>Also you can't be in demon.announce, as they highlighted this "feature" 
>of the news server upgrade several times and gave basic instructions on 
>what to do. Demon.annouce is very low volume, 3 or 4 articles a week, 
>and does give useful information about the status of Demon and any 
>planned outages/problems.

I do subscribe to that group,so I must have missed it.

All the instructions I caught where the ones telling
you to avoid expiring articles for a while, so as
to avoid getting duplicates!!

Cheers
Chris

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