Hello Maurice.

21 Feb 05 09:59, you wrote to me:

 RT>> Well if you can get by, without internally, well, why not ...

 MK> For sure!  The MSGID isn't needed for one's own stuff or at least not
 MK> anything I need.  I tend to be fussy about archives here and don't
 MK> save much in the way of messages, nevermind Fido.  As far as programs
 MK> go I tend to lean towards archiving the configurations and the such
 MK> and just use the basic GNU/Linux stuff.  Even those I tend to play
 MK> with so there is very little that requires backing up, and that I tend
 MK> to be religious about ... most of the time.  In fact I just finished
 MK> backing up the entire /etc on one machine a few minutes ago.  A bit of
 MK> overkill but that made it easier and it isn't all that big.

Tend to do much the same here, only I don't do back-ups as often as I might 
... :-(

 MK>>> Everyone of those messages was a true dupe that not one tosser
 MK>>> caught.

 RT>> Yes and the reasons where many, including a new MSGID, origin and
 RT>> all ... :-((

 MK> The MSGID was still there but effectively disabled and a new one
 MK> applied.  Same with the rest, although it was "hidden". 
All that was
 MK> accomplished was to effectively add bloat wrt true Fido systems, the
 MK> idea being that the news server would use the new tags to spread the
 MK> word.  That way when it returned to Fido systems the old tags SHOULD
 MK> have kicked back in.  However we all got what was destined for the
 MK> news server and all the checks and balances were disabled.

Yeah, as they say, shit happens, like it or not ... , Misconfigured systems 
are something we will always have ... 

 MK> Fairly easy to figure out what went wrong there.

Hmmm .... 

Russell

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