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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Who's Messing With The Usenet ?
Keywords: article, duplication, monkey business
Message-ID: <1989Sep17.022923.10866@twwells.com>
Date: 17 Sep 89 02:29:23 GMT
References: <2056@avsd.UUCP>
Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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In article <2056@avsd.UUCP> childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes:
:       avsd# cd /usr/spool/news/alt/bbs
:
:       avsd# ls
:       231  232  233  234  235  236  237  238  239  240  241
:
: A small sample, about 11 articles, all less than two days old.
:
:       avsd# grep Message-ID *
:       231:Message-ID: <4347@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
:       232:Message-ID: <11290@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
:       233:Message-ID: <533@sud509.RAY.COM>
:       234:Message-ID: <534@sud509.RAY.COM>
:       235:Message-ID: <537@sud509.RAY.COM>
:       236:Message-ID: <9626@venera.isi.edu>
:       237:Message-ID: <935C18IO029@NCSUVM>
:       238:Message-ID: <37058@conexch.UUCP>
:       239:Message-ID: <11519@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
:       240:Message-ID: <37058@conexch.UUCP>
:       241:Message-ID: <11519@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>

That just means that your news software is broken. Messages with
duplicate message ids should not ever make it into your spool
directory. If two messages arrive with the same id, the later one is
supposed to be discarded. The only residue of this would be in your
log file.

:       239:Path: avsd!vixie!decwrl!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!orand
:       241:Path: avsd!octopus!sts!claris!apple!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!...
:               ...wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!orand

This just says that the news left kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, went to
wuarchive, and then was sent via two different paths from there and
that the routes of the message happened to intersect at your site. All
perfectly normal, and the redundancy of it improves the reliability
of the net.

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