wipcheck and wipexpire

[Paul Tomblin]

Quoting Kachun Lee (kachun at pathlink.com):
> After turning on trace and putting in some more syslog, I found out that it was 
> quite typical for 7-8 of our peers to offer the same articles within a few 
> seconds. With current default (wipcheck=5, wipexpire=10), the 1st CHECK was 
> replied with SENDIT. Then 1 or 2 of the followed CHECKs were replied with 
> RESEND and that indicated the msgid was in WIP. However, followed CHECKs after 
> 2-3 seconds of the first one were responsed with SENDITs instead and resulted 
> with 3-5 DUPLICATEs and caused the same articles send over many times.

I had this problem on a much smaller scale, and I just had all but one of
my feeds change back to using nntpxmit instead of nntpsend.  But your
solution seems cleaner.

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