> On Sat, 25 Oct 1997 04:28:04 -0400, lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden,
> x2487) wrote:
>> One of the things that concerns me, but I guess has no real solution is
>> that repostings are occuring with new message ids. But the original cancels
>> either never reached here or were ignored. Thus now we have duplicates -
>> in a few cases multiple duplicates - of lots of large FAQs around.
>> That's causing a lot more disk space to be used than expected.
era> As another data point, same here. My university no longer runs cancels
era> because they were bringing the news server to its knees. They now do
era> NoCeM on spool, and the newsgroups certainly don't seem more littered
era> now -- possibly even less, but I could be reading the wrong groups.
If your site doesn't accept any cancels, and you have reasonably good
feeds, then you might suggest to your admin that they alias out the
"resurrector" pseudosite (which is used in all Dave reposts).
-- Andrew.