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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,news.admin
Subject: Re: FIDONET ate my newsgroup! (What's happening?!)
Message-ID: <14583@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 5 Jan 91 23:36:20 GMT
References: <680.2783DF40@busker.fidonet.org> <1039@lclark.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Electronics for Imaging, San Bruno CA
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In article <1039@lclark.UUCP> dan@lclark.UUCP (Dan Revel) writes:
>How come all of a sudden all the messages in this newsgroup are FIDONET
>encapsulated?  I've seen lots of Tim's posting before and they never looked
>like this!  Sorry if this isn't the right newsgroup for this question, but
>I saw it here first...

Some Fidonet bozo in Columbus is stripping the message ids from messages,
assigning new local message ids, and then dumping them back onto the
network -- hence the several dozen duplicate messages yesterday.

I have to say that I have yet to see Fido gateways to USENET doing
anything but hurting the quality of newsgroups, and I wonder if there
should be a policy against such gateways.  If you think there's a lot
of pointless blather on USENET, try a Fido echo sometime.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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