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From: matthew@sunpix.east.sun.com (Matthew Stier - Sun Visualization Products)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Sys file question
Message-ID: <452@sunpix.East.Sun.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 91 22:01:22 GMT
References: <1991Feb1.112306.3072@daimi.aau.dk>
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In article <1991Feb1.112306.3072@daimi.aau.dk> datpete@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Andersen) writes:
>The reason for the sys-file question is thus that I want to prevent that
>locally posted articles appear twice in the newsgroup.
>
>I have loooked at the stuff in the 'contrib' directory in the C-news 
>distribution, but I haven't found a solution to this part of the problem.
>
>Any hints ?
>
>Peter Andersen

Your looking at the problem from the wrong perspective.  There is a routine in
inews (or what ever passes for Bnews 'inews' program in Cnews) that eliminates
duplicate articles based on Message-ID.  If your can hack your mail-to-news and 
news-to-mail program to not drop this line from the header, your problem is 
solved.

News-to-mail:
	Mail programs ignore unknown header lines.
	Bonus: mail reading person, now has article reference in to reply with.

Mail-to-news:
	Inews receives mail message, finds Message-ID line, determines its a
	duplicate and throws it out.


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