Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!icom!xwkg.Icom.Com!andy From: andy@xwkg.Icom.Com (Andrew H. Marrinson) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Duplicate articles from B news site - would C news help ?? Message-ID: Date: 25 Nov 90 02:41:21 GMT References: <1990Nov22.175142.18296@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@icom.icom.com (News Feed) Organization: Icom Systems, Inc. Lines: 23 andy@xwkg.Icom.Com (Andrew H. Marrinson) writes: >I wrote some scripts that took the message IDs rejected as duplicates >from the log file and used gethist to construct a path to those... First of all, that should have been newshist, not gethist. Sorry. Second, I just went back and checked, and the message IDs in the log that were rejected as duplicates match exactly the message IDs recorded as already having been received in the history file, as well as matching message IDs in the articles themselves in /usr/spool/news. Therefore, I assume I haven't run into a problem with libdbm yet -- right? These certainly look like genuine duplicates. A problem at uunet? (I sent a message to postmaster there, but have had no reply yet. You listening James? Or is someone else responsible for news?) I take it it is recommended we switch to dbz in any case? -- Andrew H. Marrinson Icom Systems, Inc. Wheeling, IL, USA (andy@icom.icom.com)