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From: jeff@cjsa.wa.com (Jeffery Small)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: C news aliases in the active file
Summary: Alias is causing crossposted articles to be duplicated
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.170455.18630@cjsa.wa.com>
Date: 28 Jan 91 17:04:55 GMT
Organization: C. Jeffery Small and Associates
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Having recently aliased the old "unix-pc.general" newsgroup to the
new "comp.sys.3b1" group, I discovered a little problem which must have
existed for some time.

If someone crossposts an article to both of these groups, then C news
generates two copies of the article in "comp.sys.3b1".  Both copies have
the same message ID and in fact, the files are identical in the spool
directory.

Is there a clean and simple way to eliminate the duplication of these
articles?

Thanks for any help you can offer.
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