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In article <1993Jan7.170102.1835@dunix.drake.edu> ta2321s@dunix.drake.edu (Terry Asher alias -       The Penguin) writes:
>... I am our news administrator at Drake University and am fairly new
>to c-news.  We get our feed from news.iastate.edu and I have talked with them
>and they assured me that this next error was not their fault.  We checked to
>see if it was a clock-sync problem between our two systems and our system time
>wasn't off by more than a minute from their time.  They have the May, 1992
>version of c-news.
>
>    The first error is in root's mail which reads as follows:
>      leading five sites sending stale/future/misdated news:
>      249 news.iastate.edu
>The number above changes constantly; going up and down.

That message is derived from log messages which indicate one of three
things:
	1. news older than your history-retention time
	2. news dated in the future
	3. news with garbage dates

For #1, you need to check the /expired/ value in your explist file and
see whether it's a reasonable number -- it should be at least a few days.
For the others, you need to look at the logs to locate specific messages,
and examine them to find out what's wrong.
-- 
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