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From: bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: SCO Mailing List
Message-ID: <961@camco.Celestial.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 91 22:28:08 GMT
References: <1991Apr1.060015.5722@pcssc.com> <1991Apr2.014433.463@eng.ufl.edu>
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In <1991Apr2.014433.463@eng.ufl.edu> jc@joker.mil.ufl.edu (Jim Castleberry) writes:

>In article <1991Apr1.060015.5722@pcssc.com> dma@pcssc.com (Dave Armbrust) writes:
>>                  The Santa Cruz Operation mailing list
>>
>>[how to join and submit articles]

>Be forewarmed that uunet sends out OODLES of duplicate messages on this
>list (a.k.a. noise, junk mail, etc.).  I was on it until recently and it
>was common for me to receive 5-10 copies of an article.  I bailed out a
>week or so ago when someone posted a particularly bothersome article and
>I received over 150 copies of it in 1 day.  Uunet concedes the problem
>is theirs but doesn't have the resources to fix it.

>Jim.

This particular problem wasn't uunet's problem.  As I understand
it someone PURPOSELY was feeding articles back into
uunet!sco-list at least a hundred times each.  I think they
should be allowed to share a room with Mr. Morris for a few
years.

The list is back up and running now and I haven't seen any
duplicates since it came back on-line.

I posted a short program to check for duplicate message id's and
reject them before we explode the list into the Puget Sound area.
I will be glad to send it to anyone interested.  It consists of a
dbm database maintained by a perl program which is called by
deliver before sending the article on or dropping it.

Bill Campbell
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