Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: question about mpx386.s .... second time
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From: philip@pch.home.cs.vu.nl (Philip Homburg)
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:21:16 +0200
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In article <slrn9o391t.m9p.pienjo@mud.stack.nl>,
Martijn van Buul <pino+comp_os_minix@dohd.org> wrote:
>It occurred to me that Kees J Bot wrote in comp.os.minix:
>> I never saw Paul's article, by the way.  Either it was in HTML, or it
>> originated at the one of the news sites that we temporarily don't accept
>> articles from.  (All thanks to spammers in general and the Hipcrime
>> flooder in particular.)
>
>... or it just happened to be posted while you were visiting that one
>room with the blue ceiling. I don't know how long the newsservers @
>Vrije Universiteit will keep a newsarticle on spool, but the darn thing
>over here[1] seems to think that 2.5 weeks is *very* long.

But Minix is special over here and the news server that kjb uses runs
Minix(-vmd). The oldest article in comp.os.minix is from 29 June. Hmm,
it looks like comp.os.minix articles are kept only 5 times longer than
other articles.




						Philip Homburg
