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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,news.admin
Subject: Re: FIDONET ate my newsgroup! (What's happening?!)
Message-ID: <1991Jan6.193438.1030@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 91 19:34:38 GMT
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In article <14583@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>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.

Are you saying that there have never been similiar technical problems with
USENet sites using NNTP or UUCP instead of Fido?  Or are you commenting on
something completely unrelated and implying that this techincal problem is
an example of the depravity of FIDO?
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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