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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Who's Messing With The Usenet ?
Keywords: article, duplication, monkey business
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Date: 16 Sep 89 03:22:56 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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I don't understand this complaint.  These duplicate articles are proven
to exist by matching Message ID's, correct?  But news is supposed to
eliminate duplicate message ID's before storage.  If this is not
happening at some site then something is broken there.  Sites with
multiple feeds may commonly see duplicates in the batch -- they are not
supposed to make it to the spool directory as individual articles
though.

Rather than engage in lengthy disquisitions on others' motives, I would
get to work tracking down why inews and history are busted at my site.
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