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From: mhw@wittsend.lbp.harris.com (Michael H. Warfield (Mike))
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Who's Messing With The Usenet ?
Keywords: article, duplication, monkey business
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Date: 20 Sep 89 22:06:17 GMT
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In article <14684@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>I do not believe there is a plague of dupes.  Any site with more than
>one feed which is seeing dupes has something broken in history.  If
>someone is corrupting Message IDs via modem noise or something, then
>there could be a problem of course.

	It's not a plague it's a curse.  I'm getting them here by the ton.
Many are weeks out of date and missing my history file (which goes back
two weeks).  I got dozens of dups in the "comp.dcom.telecom" newsgroup.  I can't
confirm the message id's but I even think I've seen some of my own postings
screwed up.  Note that "comp.dcom.telecom" is moderated so it's not because
of some amateur poster.  Many of the articles should have been out of
circulation for some time.  I'm also noticing a large volume of article
going into junk because they are too far out of date.  The messages all look
clean with reasonable message-id's so the modem corruption idea is also
highly unlikely.  I also haven't seen a modem yet that will store an article
for three weeks.

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