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In article <1992Dec28.145119.17196@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
>In article <1992Dec28.144102.16960@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt) writes:
>>In <1992Dec28.125223.14403@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (JKF) writes:
>>
>>>Every day, the number of messages threaded gets larger.  It's as though
>>>there's a fixed point somewhere a week and some odd days past that gets
>>>used as a reference point and every message that has arrived since then
>>>gets threaded each time you re-enter a newsgroup.  Any day now it's going
>>>to sit there and thread thousands of messages when I go into some of the
>>>heavy-traffic newsgroups.
>>
>>Well, beats me.  I have "mthreads -a all" done twice an hour in crontab.
>
>Embarrassedly, I reply that I have no idea what that does... but what
>should we do next?  Start posting about the problem on news.software.readers
>or news.admin.technical?  What kind of news software does Nyx use?
>
I don't think we need to worry about it. One of the high traffic
groups I follow was up to threading 985 last night, and is back down
to the normal 2-4 today.
I suspect it was, as aburt suggested at once point, related to the
50,000+ messages that UUCP re-sent to us.

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