Re: Some news refuses to expire

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From: Philip McNab
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:00

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In article <815155293snz@microvst.demon.co.uk>
           tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk "Anthony R. Gold" writes:

[SNIP useful tips]
> The one thing I'd urge is for you to find why you are ever getting the
> newsbase files corrupted.  I've only had this when time clocks pull the
> mains plug in mid unbatch or expire and with a large smartdrv of cached
> writes and open FCBs.  You must have some flakey hardware or software.

No, a flakey user :)

I tried editing my newsgroups to remove the Japanese spam, but goofed
it in some way that I still can't quite fathom, trashing the files
in the process. I hadn't taken a backup ...

-- 
/ Philip McNab // philip@siberia.demon.co.uk /

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