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From: flee@dictionopolis.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: path repeats
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>But couldn't frobozz itself ignore articles where frobozz is already
>mentioned in the Path line?

I'd rather it didn't.  You lose the chance of seeing forgeries that
claim to have passed through your site.

If frobozz gets an article with "frobozz" in the Path, then either
it's already in the history, it's *really old* news, or it's a
forgery.  *Really old* news is better handled some other way.
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Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu