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From: ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Duplicate articles from B news site - would C news help ??
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Date: 21 Nov 90 03:02:26 GMT
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Since moving to C news in the past week (with the associated monitoring of
log files to make sure everything is working) I've noticed lots of duplicated
articles being fed to us from our single, upstream newsfeed. They currently
batch news to us using B news 2.11.17 (I think thats the patch level they're
using) but they also have multiple feeds to themselves.

My question: does B news simply pass all messages on to hosts they feed as
defined in the sys file without checking that they've sent the same file
twice ??? Does C news have the same behaviour ??? 

I don't think that C news does, but I'd really like it confirmed by those in
the know :-) If C news does check I'll probably recommend our feed change to
C news to save some transmission bandwidth by not transmitting those annoying
duplicates.

ian
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