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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: News article showing up twice ???
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.151202.12961@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 90 15:12:02 GMT
References: <1990Dec5.155010.22577@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1990Dec6.000419.7392@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1990Dec6.000419.7392@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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.
>
 It was the ***same*** article.  Same contents.  Same Message-ID.  Same
inode number.  Same line in the history file.  Both copies listed on the
'Xref:' header that I enclosed in my original report.

 I know it did not take more disk space.  But it is still an annoyance to
news readers.  Maybe the problem is rare enough to not be worth dealing
with.  I was just reporting it.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115.                                  +1-815-753-6940