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Article #214Re: Demonites are back on song - HURRAH!!
From: Paul Copsey
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:00
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On 30 Jan 1997 13:17:21, Damien Burke <damien@jetman.nojunkmail.demon.co.uk> wrote: > When I said pitifully poor, I meant a machine that ran lots of other stuff as > well as news software, regularly had a full spool so you couldn't post to it, > lost its article database every few weeks... basically it was a mess. And it > still managed fairly decently when it was behaving. That sounds suspiciously like the one at B'ham Uni, who didn't have anyone who knew how to get the spool expiring properly and hence it sat, constipated on a pile of old articles, until apparently a big batch hit it and it woke up. This led to posters at B'hams peers firing binaries at it to wake it up ;-) Paul
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