HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: davel@news.arc.nasa.gov (Dave Liebreich)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: USENET FLOW ANALYSIS for AUG 92: Top 1000 sites
Keywords: arbitron, statistics, flow
Date: 9 Sep 92 15:14:22 GMT
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) writes:
>
>> Rank   weight  name
>>============================
>
>
>this is all I received -- did anyone else get the entire list this month?


The Net must be dead.  Congratulations to all who predicted that the
imminent death of USENET would occur in August, 1992.

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From: visser@convex.com (Lance Visser)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: mutlu
Date: 11 Sep 92 18:05:17 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <26339.9209101804@pyr.swan.ac.uk> iiitac@PYR.SWAN.AC.UK (Alan Cox) writes:


+>I've just stopped my nntp driver bothering to ask for any articles that
+>look like they have a zuma header on them. Maybe some of the backbone
+>sites should just filter him out, although this might be a slightly
+>disturbing precedent.

	The problem is that they will just change the site name in the
same way they went away from the "Multu" name in order to avoid peoples
kill files.  Rather than there being a "Multu", there is most likely a
group of "Multu's" including one Ahmet Cosar who are such cowards that
they refuse to post under their own names or from their own sites anymore.

	I think that the way to deal with it right now is to try and track
down (somehow) where these messages are really coming from and who is
really sending them.  He must be leaving a trail to somewhere.



****************Do not remove this line.  Multugen depends on it**************
[Insert one line of insanity]

[Insert attribution]

[Insert Turkish government propoganda]

[Insert Sig]

[Insert quote from Armenian]
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc,news.admin
From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Subject: nonconforming news Message-IDs of last week
Organization: Twin Sun, Inc
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:29:08 GMT

Here is a list of Message-IDs discarded by twinsun's news software last week
because they do not conform to the Internet RFC 1036 and RFC 822 standards.
If a Message-ID from your site is on this list,
your news or mail software is probably broken and should get fixed.
The headings describe the probable reason for nonconformance.

(unknown cause)

	<Auto2.2@>
	<Auto2.3@>
	<Orakel.1@>
	<Orakel.2@>

	<@duncan>

	<Jason_Peacock@fcircus.sat.tx.us.0cd4@fcircus.sat.tx.us>

	<FAQ:Sept92@miracle.com>

	<"BFG-IFOSCN"*@sprint.com>
	<"CGJC-1660-8342.17"*@sprint.com>
	<"Macintosh"*.PRMD=GTEGS.ADMD=TELEMAIL.C=US.@sprint.com>
	<"YL-IFTDLN"*@sprint.com>

	<.2.Sep.1992,.14:35:31.TPM@uk.ac.rl.ib>

C News (pre-1992) configuration botch

	<1992Sep3.133450.22976@%fims@uu.psi.com>
	<1992Sep4.125433.25767@%fims@uu.psi.com>
	<1992Sep4.134139.28734@%fims@uu.psi.com>
	<1992Sep4.160212.564@%fims@uu.psi.com>

GNUS configuration botch

	<HIRT.92Sep7124628@itsnova.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de\>

MHS + mail-to-news gateway botch

	<12*.S=oertel.OU=VMS.O=MPIIB-FREIBURG.PRMD=MPG.ADMD=dbp.C=de.@MHS>

NewsWatcher 1.3d1 (obsolete)

	<mwalker-010992122940@mwalker1.npd.provo.novell.com.>
	<mwalker-020992094938@mwalker1.npd.provo.novell.com.>

sendmail configuration botch + mail-to-news gateway botch

	<9209042045.AA00871@.flogger.LANL.GOV.>

	<9208311849.AA02486@.tvrisc.timeplex.com>

	<9209070751.AA28487@.uaimzti.Mathematik.Uni-Mainz.DE.>
Newsgroups: news.admin
From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: Hasan B Mutlu
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:17:51 GMT

In article <Bu9AB2.IwA@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com> writes:

>Are kill files part of the Usenet RFCs?  I was under the impression
>that this was a "reader" thing.

No on one, yes on two.  Nevertheless, KILL files are available to the
vast majority of people reading news, and there is no good reason why
any particular package should not support them.  It is a de facto
standard.

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / "I don't know how much support NAMBLA
\  / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu /  has in the gay community."
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /   -- Clayton Cramer, August 1992
Newsgroups: news.admin
From: gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy)
Subject: Re: Why we need a "Copyright: " field (was: Re: NetNews/CD . . .)
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 20:15:26 GMT

In article <258@ulogic.UUCP> hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:
#Actually, this system records 
#the article as $HOME/.article -- which is overwritten almost immediately 
#once I reply to another article.

Who cares? You get copyright as soon as you write something in a
tangible medium. That you immediately over-write the file doesn't
matter. (I am not a lawyer.)

#In truth what we have here is a "virtual document" -- where many
#instances exist -- all of which are (by default) copyright -- but
#no "original" per se.

But only because you willfully deleted the original.

--
-Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia
 USPS Mail:     Astronomy Department, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA
 Internet:      gsh7w@virginia.edu  
 UUCP:		...!uunet!virginia!gsh7w
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.unix.wizards
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: UUCP newsfeed from NNTP?
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:28:10 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1992Sep9.155845.3440@tygra.Michigan.COM> jp@tygra.Michigan.COM (John Palmer) writes:
>"I would like to know if it's possible to make an internet host without an
>"actual usenet database be set up to feed usenet articles to a UUCP host
>"using UUCP and NNTP protocols.
>
>You mean that you want to have the internet host receive the news and  
>just queue it up for outbound feeds without filing it on the system.
> 
>Yes its possible, but you have to modify CNEWS...

No you don't.  C News doesn't care how the articles/batches reach it.
Just have NNTP slurp them in, and then ship them out via UUCP.  There is
no need to involve C News at all; the Internet host in question is being
used solely as part of the communications link.

This isn't something you could do with the stock software without some
tinkering, or at least very careful and somewhat nonstandard configuration,
though.

>Best way would be to set up standard CNEWS, and expire after each 
>batcher run, with a save time of 0.01 days, or something like that. 

That certainly is simpler, although it isn't logically necessary.
-- 
There is nothing wrong with making      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.admin.policy
From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Mutlu violating Usenet RFC
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 10:24:11 GMT

In article <18mte2INNa09@agate.berkeley.edu> gwh@soda.berkeley.edu (George William Herbert) writes:
>This is simply untrue, John.  Every site, Internet or Usenet that is connected
>to our greater email net has to have a valid domain name registered
>with the Network Information Center.

No they don't. Usenet news, and UUCP sites, predate the domain name system.
In addition, you're ignoring gateways.

Since zuma is not in the UUCP maps, and he doesn't include a gateway in
his From: line, I would agree the address is fraudulent. But simply not
having a domain name is not sufficient.

>Any site which isn't registered isn't on the net, by
>definition.  If you don't believe me, ask the NIC or UUNET.

Neither the NIC nor UUNET are authoritative for Usenet.
-- 
                                                                `-_-'
                         Har du kramat din varg idag?            'U`

Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX  +1 713 568 0480/1032
From: dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Checkgroups message
Keywords: HELP! checkgroups
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:32:46 GMT
Organization: Data Factory Services, Harrisburg, Pa.

I am in desperate need of a recent Checkgroups posting. I have waited
for over a month to see one come through and haven't seen one yet. Would
some kind soul shoot me one in email? The mose recent I have here is
from way back in February and I'm trying to bring this site up to snuff.

Thanks folks. 



-- 
 ...uunet!wa3wbu!frackit!dave -or-                       |  Dave Ratcliffe  |
 frackit!dave@uunet.UU.NET -or- dave@frackit.uucp -or-   |  Sys. <*> Admin. |
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Newsgroups: news.admin
From: kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron)
Subject: Non-compliant articles, week ending 13 September 92
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 11:44:24 GMT

         Invalid Headers, week ending 13 September 92

    The following is a list of articles which were dropped by the news 
    software here for a non-compliant header.  If a message ID from your 
    site is on this list then your news software may be out of compliance 
    with the RFCs on netnews articles and should be fixed.

Header contains non-header line:
	article 
	<72066@apple.Apple.COM> `Keywords:'
	<29880@goofy.Apple.COM> `Sender:'
	<29894@goofy.Apple.COM> `Sender:'
	<1992Sep4.232118.24755@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
		`Followup-To:iscp.bellcore.com!mtc'
	<1859@ceylon.gte.com>
		`References:<1525@ceylon.gte.com> <1992Sep5.154915.17558@a...'
	<1862@ceylon.gte.com> `Followup-To:'
	<13481@pogo.wv.tek.com> `Keywords:Chicken Gun, Rooster Booster'
	<13510@pogo.wv.tek.com> `Sender:markwi@pogo.wv.tek.com'
	<1992Sep9.170249.18916@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
		`Keywords:fuel, performance, compare'
	<1992Sep8.053512.15705@reed.edu> `Summary:Just a novice question'
	<51203@seismo.CSS.GOV> `Keyywords:'
	<MANMOS.92Sep8140547@kgway.knowledge.co.jp> `Distri'
	<250@mnopltd.UUCP> `Distribution:'
	<251@mnopltd.UUCP> `Distribution:'
	<252@mnopltd.UUCP> `Distribution:'
	<253@mnopltd.UUCP> `Distribution:'
	<254@mnopltd.UUCP> `Distribution:'
	<6067@pdxgate.UUCP> `References:'

Unapproved article in moderated group:
	<11SEP199211390811@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu> `vmsnet.sources'
	<11SEP199211401680@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu> `vmsnet.sources'

Newsgroup list contains white space:
	<1992Sep12.175451.3394@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>
		`alt.games.lynx, rec.games.video'

No @ in Message ID:
	<MSM.JKELLETT.2430.1992.0910.17.45.17.45> 

No From: header:
	<@duncan> 

No Date or unparsable Date:
	<jy.2@eng.ufl.edu> `<jy.2@eng.ufl.edu>'
	<jy.3@eng.ufl.edu> `<jy.3@eng.ufl.edu>'
	<jy.4@eng.ufl.edu> `<jy.4@eng.ufl.edu>'
	<9209100008.AA03445@kekux.kek.jp> `Thu, 10 Sep 92 09:08:40+0900'
	<94.2AAB0270@toadnet.org> `Thu, 04 Sep92   7:44:00 CDT'

Date in future (when received):
	<u6zsqAVJBh104h@olson.acme.gen.nz> `18 Sep 92 00:26:22 GMT'
	<v1IsqABDBh104h@olson.acme.gen.nz> `15 Sep 92 23:25:35 GMT'
Xref: sparky news.admin:7469 comp.org.eff.talk:5697 misc.legal.computing:2078
From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)
Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.org.eff.talk,misc.legal.computing
Subject: Re: NetNews Contract? NOT!
Date: 5 Sep 92 22:43:11 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL
NNTP-Posting-Host: zabriskie.berkeley.edu

forda@gtephx.UUCP (Andrew Ford @ AGCS, Phoenix, Arizona) writes:

>jj@alice.att.com writes:

>> [ Andrew Ford writes ]

>> >They willingly allow you to post and you willingly post, knowing
>> >that they will copy your work all over creation (and US law 
>> >gives you a copyright for your works, so either everyone on usenet
>> >is violating that copyright or you are granting a license to copy.)
>> Of course, Ford ignores two simple facts, first that copyright
>> law exists in a specific form regardless of what he says, and that
>
>You're an idiot.  

I feel compelled to interject a this point that, whatever 
qualities jj@alice may possess, he is most definitely *not*
an idiot.  Nor is he at all phased by any of your pitiful attempts
to toss such darts.

Whereas you, Andrew Ford, have dug yourself into an ever-deepening
hole on this one, said hole being one that jj and others are
well poised to fill to the brim with your own recently-spewed
garbage.

Andrew, a few days ago I posted yet another cogent explanation
as to why your netnews-contract assertion holds no water.
Barring flaky news software, it appears you haven't responded.
At this point I  don't need to hear your response.  You've
already lost the argument, whether or not you manage to get the
last word.

Steve
Newsgroups: news.admin
From: jp@tygra.Michigan.COM (John Palmer)
Subject: Re: UUCP newsfeed from NNTP?
Organization: CAT-TALK Conferencing Network, Detroit, MI
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 15:58:45 GMT

In article <1992Sep5.032555.2584@u.washington.edu> zeno@hardy.u.washington.edu (Sean T. Lamont) writes:
"
"I would like to know if it's possible to make an internet host without an
"actual usenet database be set up to feed usenet articles to a UUCP host
"using UUCP and NNTP protocols.
"
"Thanks.
"
"

You mean that you want to have the internet host receive the news and  
just queue it up for outbound feeds without filing it on the system.
 
Yes its possible, but you have to modify CNEWS. Its probably not that
hard to do. 
 
Get articles in, unbatch them and immediatly batch them up again for
outbound. You'll have to store them somewhere while this is done. It
would be just a matter of deleting them after the batching operation.
 
Best way would be to set up standard CNEWS, and expire after each 
batcher run, with a save time of 0.01 days, or something like that. 

Newsgroups: news.admin
From: zeno@hardy.u.washington.edu (Sean T. Lamont)
Subject: UUCP newsfeed from NNTP?
Organization: Abstract Software
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 03:25:55 GMT


I would like to know if it's possible to make an internet host without an
actual usenet database be set up to feed usenet articles to a UUCP host
using UUCP and NNTP protocols.

Thanks.


-- 
Sean T. Lamont, Abstract Software        |   "Don't oppress me, It's
zeno@u.washington.edu                    |    'computer of color!' "
Next Mail............................... |  yang.cpac.washington.edu!zebu!zeno 
----------------"My employers opinions are my own, not yours."-----------------
Newsgroups: news.admin
From: richter@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (C. Richter)
Subject: Restricting access to nntp
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Distribution:  world
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 03:55:38 GMT

Can A on host A restrict B on host B from accessing B's nntp server?
I suddenly find myself without access and I am unable to reach a sysop
tonight (Sun) to find out if there is a system problem or if someone else 
found a way to restrict access.  I have reason to believe that someone 
may want to do this. 

BTW, I have been accessing my own nntp using telnet.

Conrad Richter
richter@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
Xref: sparky news.admin:7485 misc.legal.computing:2084
From: news@wolves.uucp (The Wolfe of the Den)
Newsgroups: news.admin,misc.legal.computing
Subject: Re: NetNews Contract? NOT!
Date: 7 Sep 92 01:20:59 GMT
Organization: Wolves Den UNIX
X-Md4-Signature: 307f5305393a4bcdeffcaa018e3f5bd2

In article <1992Sep4.231701.15240@gtephx.UUCP> forda@gtephx.UUCP 
(Andrew Ford NOT a QUALITY JOB) babbles:
>In article <1992Sep03.025706.21976@anomaly.sbs.risc.net>, kd1hz@anomaly.sbs.risc.net (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
>
>> But again, the crux of someone's previous argument was that by putting my
>> machine on the net, I have somehow bound this machine/my company to some
>> vague terms outlined singularly in the minds of each of the 10,000,000 users
>> on the Internet. 
>
>No, no, no!  By putting you machine on the net, you have offered individuals
>all over the world a service: that of distributing their "works."  This
>does not bind you to distribute and no-one has said so (before you did).
>
>What does happen is that the poster licenses you (gives permission) to 
>distribute his work -- even though it may carry a copyright notice.

We finally see (after too much drivel) that Mr. Ford is suffering under
the model of the implied contract as giving the site owner "permission"
to perform a copying operation.

This has been settled previously.  It only works under the limited case
of the poster's being the originating author of the work in question.
Your contract and model still doesn't relieve the site owner of the
liability of contributory negligence when some poster violates someone
else's copyrights, trade secrets or other property rights.

You have some minimally valid points in terms of an implicit contract
between sites in terms of providing an exchange of services, but you've
lost it all by bringing in several irrelevant concepts and stooping to
pure *ad hominem* attacks against those who are in valid disagreement
with your particular *opinion*
-- 
Usenet Net News Administrator @ The Wolves Den  (G. Wolfe Woodbury)
news%wolves@cs.duke.edu     ...duke!wolves!news     "We don't need no
There is a real person who watches this account.   stinking disclaimers"
Newsgroups: news.admin
From: mjo@ef2007.efhd.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Subject: Re: Hasan B Mutlu
X-Disclaimer: Not an official spokesperson for Ford OPEO
Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>
Organization: International Affairs, Overseas Engineering, "Fordz"
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 10:54:38 GMT

In article <SPACE.92Sep6172545@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org>
space@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org (Lars Soltau) writes:

:I don't think we should reduce the technical standard of Usenet to the lowest
:common denominator, some Foobar Usenet system developed by someone on the
:Sinclair ZX81, do you? If a system does not support KILL files, change it or
:drop it, but don't ask the rest of us (the overwhelming majority) to act as if
:they didn't exist.

Are kill files part of the Usenet RFCs?  I was under the impression
that this was a "reader" thing.

							...Mike
-- 
 Michael J. O'Connor           |  Internet:  mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com
 Ford Motor Company, OPEO      |  UUCP:      ...!{backbone}!fmsrl7!mjo
 20000 Rotunda, Bldg. 1-3001   |  Phone:     +1 (313) 248-1260
 Dearborn, MI  48121           |  Fax:       +1 (313) 323-6277
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.admin.policy,soc.culture.turkish
From: styri@hal.nta.no (Haakon Styri)
Subject: Re: Mutlu violating Usenet RFC
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 08:45:12 GMT

In article <192rs9INNa4o@agate.berkeley.edu>, George William Herbert writes:
>
> Without commenting on the opinions expressed above, I can verify that
> mail sent to anatolia!zuma will indeed bounce and land in Cosar's lap.
> Since it apparently is an invalid link, it's unfair to drag Mr. Cosar's
> site into the forgeries problem.  Investegations continue to
> progress into exactly who is indeed posting these, thanks to usenet
> logs kept at various sites.

  Well, I believe that "unfair" isn't the correct word here. There must be
two parts agreing to set up the newsfeed. Cosar should know that when a
newsfeed is established there will usually be some mail trying to reach
the site using the same path. (At least mr. Cosar knows by now.)

  I don't think Cosar was forced to establish the newsfeed (though
reading the stuff coming out of `zuma' gives me some doubt about that).
Hence he should be in the position to require `zuma' to accept mail
through his site. (How do those two sites communicate administrative
info btw.? Smoke signals?) By claiming he knows a working mail path
to `zuma', and by withholding this information, Cosar is actively
protecting that site. (Not that it's illegal...)

  In other words: No tears for Cosar's extra workload. It's his own
choice to bounce that mail without providing any information about a
working mailpath.

---
Haakon Styri
Norwegian Telecom Research	"I speak only for myself, though"
Newsgroups: news.admin
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: USENET FLOW ANALYSIS for AUG 92: Top 1000 sites
Keywords: arbitron, statistics, flow
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 13:23:01 GMT

reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) writes:

>Here are the top 1000 sites on USENET for AUG 92, ranked by influence,
>in percent:


> Rank   weight  name
>============================


this is all I received -- did anyone else get the entire list this month?

-- 
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keeper of the Gator                                  uucp: uunet!gator!larry
Newsgroups: news.admin
From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: "Computers graphic when it comes to porn"
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 13:44:13 GMT

In article <3781@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
>One might suggest that part of your government has already crossed
>that threshold, vis the forfeiture laws, Alvarez-Machain and
>the new FBI wiretap bill etcetera.

And how would controlling speech have helped avoid this sort of thing? The
most dangerous speech is that sanctioned by the government.
-- 
                                                                `-_-'
                         Have you hugged your wolf today?        'U`

Peter da Silva, Taronga Park BBS, Houston, TX  +1 713 568 0480/1032
From: rdc30@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Code-03 LCDR Michael E. Dobson)
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
Subject: Re: Sadistic, Automated, or Rabid map administrator.
Keywords: Belgium maps
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:11:39 GMT
Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command

In article <T1o1qB1w165w@beltrix.guild.org> peters@beltrix.guild.org (Peter Sleggs) writes:
>mps@winneshk.hawkeye.com (Michael Snyder) writes:
>
[Mr. Snyder's complaints about too frequent Belgium maps deleted]
>
>
>
[some stuff deleted]

>Subject: UUCP map for u.bel.0
>Message-ID: <Sep.12.10.48.20.1992.12164@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
>Date: 12 Sep 92 14:48:20 GMT
>Expires: 27 Oct 92 14:48:20 GMT
>Sender: pleasant@rutgers.rutgers.edu
>Lines: 54
>Approved: pleasant@rutgers.edu (Mel Pleasant)
>Supersedes: <Sep.11.10.52.41.1992.7020@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
>
>Why are these approved ? Do the originators have nothing better to do
>with their time ?
>
comp.mail.maps is a moderated newsgroup, all moderated newsgroups require
the Approved: header in order for the post to be accepted by the news
system.

You will also notice the Supersedes: header.  This tells the news system to
delete the previous version from the spool directory.  Therefore frequent
submission of maps doesn't take up additional space in your news directory.
However, if indeed there are no new entries in the maps, it is wasteful of
bandwidth and costs money to those receiving the redundant information.

If you need to reduce space you can do as I do.  I process the maps daily
then delete them from the newsspool.  Only the most recent extracted map is
kept in the build directory for the pathalias database.


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