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overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us (Carlos Amezaga [Postmaster]) writes:

>	I called UUNET up myself on Sunday.  UUNET is usually down
>until 2pm, but this Sunday it took longer.  I spoke to Eric and he
>said they were performing a System Upgrade.  This would explain
>things.  It went back up at around 8 or 9pm.  It would be nice if
>they would have announced it on uunet.general or some such.

It appears that my version of nntpd spawned a bug in their inn
news server in regards to sending the same article over and over.

uunet noticed this, and corrected this early Sunday morning,
but then they went down around 8 for maintenance.  News started
flowing again from and to uunet via nntp early Monday morning.

I know they go down every Sunday (I was using them as my primary 
namesever, now I use another site) which is a pain (I'm not quite
sure why a news machine would need to go down every Sunday -- we
don't backup news -- that's what nntp is for (grin)).

At least with multiple nntp feeds, we still get a good percentage
of the traffic (nntp operates in IHAVE/SENDME mode where as sites
compare headers prior to sending articles (in ASCII) to avoid 
duplicates)..

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Larry Snyder                                    internet: larry@gator.use.com
keeper of the Gator                                   uucp: uunet!gator!larry