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   candycanearter07 to Keith Thompson   
   Re: Flood of old articles   
   03 Nov 25 16:50:08   
   
   From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   Keith Thompson  wrote at 21:33 this Sunday (GMT):   
   > Today a number of very old articles, from around 2006 to 2010,   
   > have been posted on comp.lang.c with new article numbers.   
   >   
   > This is apparently the result of a glitch on eternal-september.org.   
   > The openwatcom.* hierarchy had been removed, but it was restored   
   > today.  The reposted articles were cross-posted to comp.lang.c and   
   > various newsgroups under openwatcom.*.  Similarly, 20 old articles   
   > reappeared in comp.std.c.   
   >   
   > There's probably nothing to be done about it.  Just pay attention   
   > to the date on any articles before posting followups.   
      
      
   Can you set your newsreader to mark articles before a date as read? I'd   
   imagine setting it to do that with everything before this year could   
   help clean it up.   
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