Xref: utzoo news.admin:11983 news.software.b:6747 rec.food.cooking:24191 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool2.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!vixvax.mgi.com!glass From: glass@vixvax.mgi.com (William H. Glass) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b,rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Buffalo Wings Message-ID: <1991Jan30.010503.716@vixvax.mgi.com> Date: 30 Jan 91 07:05:03 GMT References: <1991Jan29.030040.26170@scifi.uucp> Organization: Management Graphics, Inc. Lines: 30 In article <1991Jan29.030040.26170@scifi.uucp>, njs@scifi.uucp (Nicholas J. Simicich;?) writes: > > I'm not sure what is happening. I got a note from Melissa of JPL, > asking "Why does this get posted over and over again?" I thought that > it was a good recipe and that maybe she was complaining because a > couple of people had reposted it, but no, she was complaining because > many sites had decided that this part of another posting was in fact a > separate posting, and had applied a new article ID to the posting and > started it off again. What you've just done is to conduct a survey of how many sites run ANU-NEWS (my site is one of the offenders). ANU-NEWS has a little feature to deal with articles processed through VMS MAIL. If the program sees a form feed (Control-L) followed immediately by "From:", it believes that it is starting a new article. The "article" of course doesn't have a Message-ID, but some releases of ANU-NEWS have a bug that allows the program to make up a new one. At that point, you now have created a new article, and it starts its way around the net. Those of us who run ANU-NEWS are aware of the problem, and we're trying to get it fixed. However, it takes a while for all sites to convert to a new release, so I expect that there will continue to be problems like this on occasion for some time. -- William H. Glass Internet: glass@mgi.com Management Graphics, Inc. Phone: +1 (612) 854-1220 1401 E. 79th Street Minneapolis, MN 55425