On 30 Nov 2003 23:49:16 -0500, (DoN. Nichols)
wrote something
.......and in reply I say!:

OK. Could be that. It seems all in order again.

This sort of thing happens when a system is down for a while,
just after receiving a batch of news, and before sending it back out.
(Or when the news spool disk on the server crashes, and it is restored
from a backup -- not too common, but it happens). Anyway, old messages
get injected into the mainstream feed *after* other systems have already
expired the article and even erased the history record of it which is
*supposed* to keep such things from happening. But there is a limit to
how long a history a system can store -- except those like google. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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