Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: News article showing up twice ???
Message-ID: <1990Dec7.163227.2214@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec5.155010.22577@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1990Dec6.000419.7392@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Dec6.151202.12961@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 90 16:32:27 GMT

In article <1990Dec6.151202.12961@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
> 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.

Oops, I didn't look closely enough.  Right you are.  The "=" feature of
the C News sys file does not attempt to strip out duplicates from the
list of newsgroups that results.  One can argue about whether this is
a feature or a bug.  Geoff doesn't seem to feel it's worth fixing.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry