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From: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Who's Messing With The Usenet ?
Keywords: article, duplication, monkey business
Message-ID: <2059@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 89 16:12:41 GMT
References: <2056@avsd.UUCP> <1989Sep16.061700.4572@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Organization: Metaprogrammers International
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coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu writes:

>If not, your news is messed up and needs an overhaul, since you should
>never have two articles with the same Message-ID. Normal duplicates are
>caused by old news being resent after the old Message-ID's have been
>expired. These, clearly, are not normal duplicates.

I've had a few people suggest this to me, and I am aware of the possibility.

But I should also make clear that there was a large gap of time between the
time I was playing with IHAVE / SENDME, and getting duplicate articles ...
and the time when I, having deinstalled IHAVE / SENDME a few months prior,
began to _again_ see duplicate news articles. A period of several months.
At the same time, many other people began to comment on the problem ...

I'll be looking into both possibilities as soon as I get a chance.

>--John

-- richard

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