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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: <2061@avsd.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 89 17:15:14 GMT
References: <2056@avsd.UUCP> <1989Sep17.022923.10866@twwells.com>
Reply-To: childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers)
Organization: Metaprogrammers International
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bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:

>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.

I'm aware of the possibility, but I'm puzzled by the periodicity of the
events. One would assume that broken software would fail consistently,
and there would constantly be a statistically steady stream of duplicate
articles. This is not the case, I installed netnews2.11.b about a year
ago, when I first started working here, and it worked fine. I haven't done
a thing other than edit /usr/lib/news/sys and play with pathalias.

>All perfectly normal, and the redundancy of it improves the reliability
>of the net.

Agreed, provided it works. I understand the _intent_. After all, I sought
duplicate newsfeeds for that precise reason ...

>bill@twwells.com

-- richard



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