Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Duplicate Message-IDs in history
Message-ID: <1990Jun2.230633.6125@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jun1.162428.21301@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 90 23:06:33 GMT

In article <1990Jun1.162428.21301@ucselx.sdsu.edu> nash@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Ron Nash) writes:
>I have a clearer example of the Cnews problem I am having.  The problem
>seems to be that history is not recoginizing duplicate Message-ID's
>from my UUCP feeds.  The duplicate article gets added and corrupts the
>active file...

You need to check what's happening when things arrive by uucp.  From the
file excerpts you include, I very strongly suspect that you have a B News
system still active on your machine, and *both* are processing the incoming
traffic.  You have both B-type and C-type history entries, for example.
For a guess, the reason why duplicates are getting through is that B News
is not using dbz.
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