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From: coolidge@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: More mashed Message-IDs
Summary: Looks like a dead mailer somewhere...
Message-ID: <1989Sep16.160104.14146@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 16 Sep 89 16:01:04 GMT
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Got these this morning:

Message-ID: <8909130935268E6.AJTQ@Mars.UCC.UMass.EDU> (UMass-Mailer 4.04)
Message-ID: <8909130935268E6.AJTQ@Mars.UCC.UMass.EDU>?(UMass-Mailer?4.04)
Message-ID: <8909130935268E6.AJTQ@Mars.UCC.UMass.EDU>(UMass-Mailer4.04)
Message-ID: <8909130935268E6.AJTQ@Mars.UCC.UMass.EDU>-(UMass-Mailer-4.04)
Message-ID: <8909130935268E6.AJTQ@Mars.UCC.UMass.EDU>.(UMass-Mailer.4.04)

These are all the same article, posted to rec.music.gaffa. An analysis
of the paths shows the following sites are in all five paths:

[...]!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!dptg!rutgers!mit-eddie!GAFFA.MIT.EDU\
!Love-Hounds-request

Looks like some mailer somewhere or another is broken...

Side note: as far as the "real" message id (the part between the angle
brackets) is concerned these are the same article. Should news be patched
to use just the text between the brackets as the message id? As far as
I know, neither B 2.11 or C does this, but it looks ok from my reading
of RFC1036...

--John

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