Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: News article showing up twice ???
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.000419.7392@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec5.155010.22577@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 90 00:04:19 GMT

In article <1990Dec5.155010.22577@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
> Recently a couple of articles showed up twice...

Are you sure it was the *same* article showing up twice?  If the Message-ID
header is different, it's a different article, even if the text is the same.

Having two different articles with the same text show up is not particularly
rare; it may indicate problems elsewhere in the net, but the software on your
machine is not broken.  If the same article -- same message-ID -- shows up
twice, then something's wrong on your machine.
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"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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