Is there a bug in Usenet?

[Mikel Manitius]

In article <584 at codas.ATT.UUCP>, I wrote:
> I just logged in to find out that both our active and
> history files had been wiped out to zero bytes. It was
> easy enough to recover, but does anyone know of a bug
> in the news software (ver 2.10.2) that bas been known
> to do such things?

I would like to thank all of the people who responded to my original
posting. It turns out that running out of space on the filesystem on
which your active and history files reside, while expire is running,
will cause this to happen.

Perhaps it would be nice to have expire wait for a certain amount of
time, or not run if this condition occurs (assuming the filesystem
will get cleaned up some other way :-).
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