Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Duplicate articles from B news site - would C news help ?? Message-ID: <1990Nov22.175142.18296@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: Date: Thu, 22 Nov 90 17:51:42 GMT In article ianh@bhpmrl.oz.au (Ian Hoyle) writes: >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... You shouldn't be getting literally-duplicate articles -- same article twice -- from any properly functioning news system, B or C. However, beware: there has been at least one incident recently of a combination of software oddities causing repeated posting of articles which *looked* similar but were really different articles, with different message-IDs. There is nothing any news system can do about that. -- "I'm not sure it's possible | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology to explain how X works." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry