Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: path repeats Message-ID: <1990Sep24.153532.27036@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <26675@mimsy.umd.edu> <1990Sep23.042833.24834@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Sep24.002412.2558@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 90 15:35:32 GMT In article <1990Sep24.002412.2558@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: > Incidentally in looking at some of the approx 8 Meg of month old news >we received over the last two days, I notice that the PATH header has some >sites shown twice. Isn't there supposed to be a check for this? There is, but it is somewhat sensitive to what sites call themselves, which may account for this. If your neighbors' news systems know your site as "frobozz" but your software puts "frobozz.edu" in the Path line of articles you receive, your neighbors will happily keep on sending you articles that have already passed through your site once. It is fairly important that a site be known by one and only one name for news purposes. -- TCP/IP: handling tomorrow's loads today| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology OSI: handling yesterday's loads someday| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry