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From: richard@locus.com (Richard M. Mathews)
Subject: Re: Duplicate postings coming from one of following
Message-ID: <richard.653205234@fafnir.la.locus.com>
Keywords: mips, prls, pyramid, decwrl
Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California
References: <2464@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 13 Sep 90 05:53:54 GMT

vnend@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (D. W. James) writes:
>We seem to have a site out there that is changing message ids and sending 
>them back out.  Examination of the appended headers narrows it down to the
>following sites:

>mips, prls, pyramid, decwrl

>Please fix this guys, it is a trifle annoying.

>Article: 4031 of rec.arts.sf-lovers
>Message-ID: <10432@hubcap.clemson.edu>

>Article: 4059 of rec.arts.sf-lovers
>Message-ID: <10$32@hubcap.clemson.edu>

One of these sites (or someone near them) seems to be messing up 0x10 and
0x40 bits in miscellaneous bytes.  Besides bad Message-IDs, I've seen a
few almost impossible to read postings.  I've seen one which changed
	<4408@optilink.UUCP>
into
	<4408@optilink.UUC@>
The second "@" confuses everything enough that C News keeps accepting
the same message over and over again even the the (bugus) Message-ID
is the same every time.  The latter Message-ID shows up in my history
file 16 times, but "newshist" doesn't find it at all.

Richard M. Mathews
Locus Computing Corporation
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