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From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Argh! Duplicates abound!
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.081325.8461@cs.widener.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 90 08:13:25 GMT
Organization: Widener CS Dept
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 I'm having a strange problem and I've exhausted all of the
possibilities that I can think of.
 I recently added a second feed (both are partial, but with nearly
exactly the same groups) to my newsfeed. Now everytime the second site
connects, a whole load of articles show up as duplicates (rather than
be rejected). Syd Weinstein (one of the folks giving me a feed)
suggested perhaps I'd built nntp wrong, since it may be reading the
history file wrong.
 After some digging, I discovered I hadn't built nntp with DBZ (as I
did with cnews). So I went and rebuilt it & installed it. Nada. No change.
 So I did mkhistory & rebuilt the history file. That didn't even fix
it. I'm at a loss.
 I do have NDBM also defined. Should I? (I tried it with just DBZ and
it failed cuz it defined USGHIST which is totally wrong.)
 Anyone have any ideas what could be going wrong here? The log file is
growing exponentially with all of the so-called duplicates. Any help
at all, even if you think it's way off base, is more than welcome!

-- 
    Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu
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