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From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: path repeats
Message-ID: <4150@pkmab.se>
Date: 25 Sep 90 09:11:10 GMT
References: <Fvrnzd92@cs.psu.edu> <1990Sep24.002412.2558@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1990Sep24.153532.27036@zoo.toronto.edu>
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In article <1990Sep24.153532.27036@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
< 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.

But couldn't frobozz itself ignore articles where frobozz is already
mentioned in the Path line?
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