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dan@gacvx2.gac.edu writes:
>I would think that it would be better for the authors of cnews and other news
>systems to spend the time preventing their software from sending out old news,
>by fixing the conditions that cause old news to be sent, rather than filtering
>it from the net at large. 

Ah, so it's now possible for news software to detect and prevent
administrator error and bad gateway design.

Some scenarios that are a little difficult to prevent in software:

- site goes down for a while, comes up with old news batches (note: not
batchfiles) still around and sends them out, since they're in a uucp queue.

- someone restores a trashed partition from fairly old backups and
accidentally restores some old news batches.

- a gateway from a network that does not preserve message-ids goes nuts.

Yes, we've seen all of these happen; some of them quite recently, in fact.

	Mark.
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"It's only netnews"